HIST106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stolen Generations, Family Values
HIST106 Lecture Notes Monday 28th August 2017
Missions and Reserves
- This should be understood as part of an ongoing narrative. Relates to and coexist
with:
o The violence of colonisation
▪ Follow the violence of colonisation as a solution to the atie
prole
▪ To try to reduce a complex problem with a simple solution
o The age of rae
o The idea of protetio
▪ A doomed race that needs protecting
▪ Protetig i a ay that ay gie the rae a e lease of life
o This was the formation for the kind of thinking about missions and reserves
o Not only based on ideas of white superiority but also became a mode for
controlling indigenous peoples without adhering to the normal processes of
justice.
- Missions and reserves, like the age of race, are part of a global as well as Australian
history
o Examples of missions and reserves are in Native American and Canadian
history.
o The segregation of indigenous peoples from the white settler community and
regulation of their lives
o Removal was traumatic for Indigenous Australians because of their spiritual
connection to the land. It removed their identities and culture.
o Missios ere supposed to raise these saage peoples. But did ot raise
them as equals. Raised them as slaves instead who were most commonly
unpaid
A brief history of missions
- Christianity is a missionary religion
o Missionary activity comes with the territory. Been a missionary religion for
centuries
- Religion has tended to follow conquest in monotheistic cultures
o E.g. crusades – conflict over the holy land
o E.g. Islamic religion is monotheistic
- Early modern European trade and territorial expansion accompanied by early
missionary efforts
- 19th etury: issios gre i size ad sope; itegrated ith e iperialis ad
abolitionist movements
o writing journals,
o raising funds
o missions are becoming integrated with new European powers
- issioaries teded to e dra fro ooforist religious deoiatios
- association of Christianity, labour, civilisation
Missions and Reserves in Settler Colonies
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Document Summary
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