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By Ryan Liddle. NITV News. Should the Blacktown Council change its name? If so, do you agree with the proposed name Western Sydney council? Do you support to another name? What name s do you propose? The site has an enduring connection with the Aboriginal community and has a strong social significance for local groups as well as the broader Aboriginal population.
The Blacktown Native Institution site is valued by sections of the contemporary Aboriginal community and the wider Australian community as a landmark in the history of cross-cultural engagement in Australia. Community groups and historians are actively engaged with the Blacktown Native Institution site as a place that reflects the history of post-colonial intervention in Aboriginal cultural traditions.
For Aboriginal people in particular, the Blacktown Native Institution holds great cultural, spiritual and heritage significance as place that symbolises dispossession, loss and forced child removal. His desire was to remain on friendly terms with the Aboriginal people and he hoped to exert his authority without using force.
On 10 December , Macquarie gazetted the rules and regulations for the Native Institution. The Parramatta Native Institution opened on 18 January and was then transferred to the Blacktown location, which operated between and From the outset, the policies developed were intolerant of Aboriginal traditions and assumed that European philosophy and traditions were of a superior nature.
This site is the earliest remaining example of an institution specifically aimed at removing Aboriginal culture and represents the Colonial Government policy that would go on to have severe, irreversible and damaging impacts upon the Aboriginal population. The policies that were experimented with at this site informed future policy and would eventually lead to further attempts at institutionalisation, dispossession of land and cultural loss for the Aboriginal population.
This site is an outstanding example of the European intervention in Aboriginal life, and represents the earliest form of public policy specifically aimed at eliminating Aboriginal cultural traditions and enforcing assimilation with a European way of life.
From the earliest days of European occupation Aboriginal children were targeted by the administration and missionaries to instil European values and work habits in them. With the closure of the Parramatta site and the opening of the Blacktown Native Institution it is evident that the administration was convinced of the benefit of institutionalising Aboriginal children.
The establishment of Blacktown Native Institution continued to apply the policies established by Macquarie, whereby Aboriginal children were promised education in exchange for their indoctrination with European customs.
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