TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘What’s this about a new mission?’
T2 - Assimilation, resistance and the Morwell transit village
AU - Marsden, Beth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 ANU Press. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This article demonstrates the destructive intent of assimilation policies through attempts at forced movement into artificially created ‘communities’, such as the Morwell transit village in Victoria, Australia, in the 1960s. It argues that the resistance by Indigenous people to forced assimilation was strong, and that the challenges that they, and their supporters, made to assimilation and housing policies, were effective in contesting attempts to disconnect Indigenous people from their land.
AB - This article demonstrates the destructive intent of assimilation policies through attempts at forced movement into artificially created ‘communities’, such as the Morwell transit village in Victoria, Australia, in the 1960s. It argues that the resistance by Indigenous people to forced assimilation was strong, and that the challenges that they, and their supporters, made to assimilation and housing policies, were effective in contesting attempts to disconnect Indigenous people from their land.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097320347&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.22459/AH.43.2019.05
DO - 10.22459/AH.43.2019.05
M3 - Article
SN - 0314-8769
VL - 43
SP - 93
EP - 116
JO - Aboriginal history
JF - Aboriginal history
ER -