Topics: Events: North West

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1911 - view

AIM establishes a Prayer Band in Karuah. They crown an Aboriginal woman as the Queen of Karuah

1913 - 1927 - view

Aboriginal people are forcibly removed by police from farms they had successfully settled, cultivated, maintained and independently farmed

1914 - view

500 Aboriginal people enlist in the armed forces

1915 - view

AIM employs Aboriginal assistants to AIM missionaries

1915 - view

Annie Markim (nee Barber) makes a carrying basket from bulrushes found near Sackville Reserve

1915 - view

Ephraim Everingham dies and is buried at the Aboriginal burial ground, Sackville

1918 - view

Aborigines become subject to the absolute control of the manager. A large number are expelled for not adhering to strict regulations

1918 - view

At his time, strict rules were introduced by Manager of the Mission and many people were removed from Mount Olive for not following the strictly imposed rules

1922 - view

AIM purchases a motor bike to visit more Aboriginal camps

1922 - view

J J Maloney pens editorials to mobilise authorities to save Aboriginal people

1923 - view

They look at Gooris as a cheap form of labour

1923 - view

St Clair Mission is closed off to Aboriginal people completely

1923 - view

Others establish a tin shanty town on the Singleton Common (the Redbourneberry Hill camp) until Housing Commission Houses are built many years later

1923 - view

The loss of St Clair and its impact on peoples’ lives becomes one catalyst that helps trigger Aboriginal political mobilisation and revolt during the 1920's

1923 - view

Aboriginal children are taught farm labour and domestic work. Many end up as servants in the houses of wealthy city residents

1923 - view

forced to relocate due to commercial interests in their land, especially the timber industry

1924 - view

Native Ministry . It recruits 12 men and women, old and young, who show aptness for spiritual leadership among their people

1924 - view

AIM classes these “native workers” into four offices: pastors, missionaries, local assistants and deacons and deaconesses

1924 - view

Aboriginal activism. Some AIM recruits use ministry training and church networks to link with others and mobilise to protest social issues

1924 - view

Australian Aborigines Progressive Association (AAPA) is formed. It hosts its first conference in Sydney during 1925 and attracts widespread media attention and a large crowd