The neereman aboriginal protectorate

In 1838 George Gipps, Governor of New South Wales, established an Aboriginal Protectorate in the Port Phillip District with the aim of encouraging Indigenous people to settle in prescribed areas and so minimise conflict between them and British squatters. It was hoped that the Indigenous people would adopt Christianity and a settled agricultural way of…

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