Delegate Reserve remains important to people who had family from there, and there are plans to make the reserve (twice stolen land) an Aboriginal Place of Significance (with interpretive signs). As Margaret Dixon states; “The mountains mean a lot to me because that’s where my people come from, up there”.
Conclusion
This is the tale of three missions. The first was segregation. The second was assimilation. The third, the current one, is called Closing the Gap. We do not know how that will turn out - but whether we are actively contributing to it, or passively accepting it, it affects the present and future lives of Aboriginal people.
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Amanda Midlam has been a writer for over 30 years - books, TV, film, video and radio. Currently she is working towards a degree in Indigenous Stories and is writing a documentary about an Indigenous man in Eden.