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Name
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Point Pearce Mission Station
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Type of carceral site
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Reserve, Station, or Mission
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Dates of use
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1868 – 1915
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Quote
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O'Dowd published 'Poetry Militant' in 1909, when my family were confined to the Point Pearce Mission Station. My Old People's legacy is one of extreme cultural dispossession, confinement and surveillance through forced movements between missions and different lands, including Noongar, Wirangu, Nauo, Ngarrindjeri, Narungga and Kaurna. They were subjected to key segregation and assimilation measures, institutions, and indentured domestic labour placements, as well as family separation and child removal. I am from the Chester, Yates and Owens family with a four-mission history, typical of many Aboriginal people across South Australia. Despite our apical lineage across many lands/Countries, we identify as Narungga. This is where my family calls home, at the Point Pearce Mission Station on Yorke Peninsula, where Nanna and her siblings were born and raised and where many of our ancestors are buried.
Journal article.
Harkin, Natalie "'Our descendants need you': an archival-poetics manifesto for a just making of history." History Australia, vol. 23, no. 1, 2026, pp. 5-29, doi:10.1080/14490854.2026.2617942: p. 7.
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Authority
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Yorke Peninsula Aboriginal Mission; the Aborigines Acts (1915–1972)
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Contact
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Dashiell
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identifier
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SITE-PPMS