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Barbara Cummings Barbara Cummings i(A108999 works by)
Born: Established: ca. 1949 Darwin, Darwin area, Northern Territory, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 Kahlin Compound Barbara Cummings , 2000 extract oral history (Take This Child... : From Kahlin Compound to the Retta Dixon Children's Home)
— Appears in: Keeper of Stories 2000; (p. 79-82)
1 Talking History : Barbara Cummings Barbara Cummings , 1997 single work oral history
— Appears in: Our Land is Our Life : Land Rights : Past, Present and Future 1997; (p. 188-194)
1 Barbara Cummings Barbara Cummings , Roberta Sykes (interviewer), 1993 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Murawina : Australian Women of High Achievement 1993; (p. 145-149)
1 Preface Barbara Cummings , 1990 single work oral history
— Appears in: Take This Child... : From Kahlin Compound to the Retta Dixon Children's Home 1990; (p. xi-xiii)
1 1 y separately published work icon Take This Child... : From Kahlin Compound to the Retta Dixon Children's Home Barbara Cummings , Canberra : 1990 Z1476643 1990 single work oral history

This is a collection of oral histories about the displacement of Aboriginal adults and children from their traditional lands to the Kahlin Compound and the Retta Dixon Children's Home in the Northern Territiory. The children's home was run by the United Inland Mission and was established within the Government compound in 1947 and both areas are referred to today as the Bagot Reserve. The author Barbara Cummings highlights the forced living of Aboriginal people at the compound to the removal of their children to the Retta Dixon home. The history spans over six decades from the 1911 Aborigines Act to 1980 and examines the beginning of Aboriginal Affairs in Darwin, as well as the political and social impacts of institutionalisation that include the adverse affects of alcoholism, violence and homelessness.
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