Protector of Aborigines
The Protectors of Aborigines ( Protector of Aborigines ) were established on the recommendation of the Select Committee of the British House of Commons and the Select Committee of the House of Commons for Aboriginal and on January 31, 1838 sent Lord Glenelg, the War and Colonial Secretary, an authorization to Governor George Gipps. The Protectors should protect the rights of Aboriginal people, protect their interests and they were equipped with far-reaching rights.
Selection
The Protectors of Aborigines were selected and had to learn the language of the aborigines or dominate. The Protectorate of Port Phillip was George Augustus Robinson transferred as Chief Protector, and to other full-time Protector. For example, Victoria Robinson was appointed as Chief Protector with four Assistant Protectors, including William Thomas.
Tasks
The task of the Protector was to pay attention to Aboriginal rights, redress of grievances and fight violence against them. This task turned into some states of Australia to a "social control" of the Aborigines. The law was a protector of the guardian of all Aboriginal and certain about their whereabouts, until the decision of where to work them, whom and whether they were allowed to marry. A Protector could spend Aborigineskinder against the will of their families in boarding schools where they were educated under the control of mostly conservative church Aboriginal mission stations and should be Christianized. The aim of this measure was the alienation of children from their families and their Aboriginal traditions to make them better integrate into society where it can but ultimately disenfranchised as servants and farm hands, had to work for the most part without payment. This development led to generations of Aboriginal people who were stripped of their origins and roots and were received as Stolen generation in history.
Some of the protectors were idealists who hoped that they could enforce the interests of Aboriginal people. This resignation soon, such as Herbert Basedow, who abdicated after 45 days as Protector.
Another extreme case was Auber Octavius Neville and Cecil Cook, who forced the policy of forced resettlement, monitoring, disciplining and punishing the Aborigines. They pursued a racist idea of eugenics, which resulted that can be achieved through a mix of indigenous people with " white blood " in the form of marriage, female half-castes with whites, a rising of the Aborigines in the race of whites.
The position of the Protectors of Aborigines was not occupied until the 1970s.
Protectors of Aborigines
Protectors of Aborigines in Australia were:
- Victoria (Port Phillip, 1839-1849 ) George Augustus Robinson
- Charles Sievwright, ( Assistant Protector) 1839-1842
- William Thomas, ( Assistant Protector) 1839-1849
- Edward Stone Parker, ( Assistant Protector) Loddon and North West District, 1839-1849
- William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in the lands of Bourke, Mornington and Evelyn
- Matthew Moorhouse, in 1837
- William Wyatt, 1837-1839
- Daisy Bates ( Exception: You received state funds for anthropological studies of Aboriginal people )
- Edward John Eyre
- Herbert Basedow, 1911 (45 days )
- Walter Baldwin Spencer
- Francis James Gillen, 1892
- William Edward Harney, 1940-1947
- Xavier Herbert
- Cecil Cook
- William Geoffrey Cahill, 1905-1915
- Walter Edmund Roth, 1904-1906,
- Archibald Meston, 1898-1903
- Walter Edmund Roth, 1898-1904