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Palm Island, Bwgcolman

Name (Cartographic)
Palm Island, Bwgcolman
Indigenous place name
Bwgcolman
Indigenous Language Group
Doebin
Languages Spoken
Bwgcolman ('many people
one place')
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The 'native school' and the 'white school' were in two separate buildings on opposite sites of the road. The entire compound was fenced in, with an access gate at the end of Mango Avenue and another at the road leading to the bridge. An additional tall wire fence surrounded both the junior and senior girls' dormitories. By the late 1920s, Palm Island had been landscaped to a design with two key principles - segregation akin to apartheid, and containment akin to a prison.
History.
Watson, Joanne. Palm Island: Through A Long Lens. Aboriginal Studies Press, 2010, p. 41.
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identifier
GEO-PLM
Language
Bwgcolman ('many people
one place')
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Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement Organization