Six survivors of Australia's longest-running Indigenous mission – in pictures
Asher Milgate documents the experiences of 18 Wiradjuri elders and elders-in-waiting connected to Nanima Mission, established in the early 1800s in Wellington, in the central west of New South Wales. There is nostalgia in the memories of Uncle Billy Lou, while others like Aunty Joyce Williams pay homage to the community’s friendship with a local Chinese population. But many more voice deep anger and pain, as seen in the oral history of Neville Brown. ‘We couldn’t speak our own language, dance, practice ceremony or eat traditionally,’ says Brown. ‘The kids they’d take were mainly the fair ones, who belong to the white man’
Survivors is at Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo until 10 May
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