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Lake Tyers Mission also known as ‘Bung Yarnda’ was an Aboriginal Mission established in 1863 on the shore of Lake Tyers in Victoria‘s Gippsland region as a centralized place for Aboriginal people from around Victoria.〔 ==History== The Lake Tyers Mission Station was established by the Church of England missionary Reverend John Bulmer in 1863 following decades of conflict between the Gunaikurnai people and white settlers in Gippsland. Bulmer had previously sought to establish a mission south of Buchan in 1861, but moved south to the coast with the few Aboriginal survivors of the conflict. The chosen site was on a peninsula, with a lake on each side, known to traditional owners as Bung Yarnda. In the early twentieth century, Aboriginal people from a number of other Victorian missions, were relocated to Lake Tyers inclduing Ramahyuck, Condah and Coranderrk, were moved to Lake Tyers. The Ramahyuck Mission, (established in 1863 by Reverend Friedrich Hagenauer on the Avon River near Lake Wellington), was closed in 1908 and the Ganai survivors from west and central Gippsland wee moved to Lake Tyers. The Ebenezer Mission was closed in 1904 due to low numbers and in the following twenty years many Wergaia people were forcibly moved to Lake Tyers.〔Ian D. Clark, pp12, ''Scars on the Landscape. A Register of Massacre sites in Western Victoria 1803-1859'', Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995 ISBN 0-85575-281-5〕 In 1916 the Government of Victoria decided to concentrate Victorian aborigines at Lake Tyers in Gippsland.〔 Lake Tyers was taken over by the government in 1908, and continued to be a place where Aboriginal people from other parts of the state were relocated, with the Victorian Aboriginal protection board establishing a policy in 1917 to concentrate all 'full-blood' and 'half-caste' Aboriginal people on the Lake Tyers Station. In the 1960s the Victorian government decided to try to close the settlement, and assimilate residents into the generally community. Some were moved to distant parts of the state, but not necessarily their traditional lands.〔(A brief history of the Lake Tyers Aboriginal community, By Jeff Waters, ABC Radio, 21 Dec 2013 )〕 In 1957 the Board for the Protection of Aborigines was abolished, and in 1970 the ''Aboriginal Lands Act 1970'' was passed by the Parliament of Victoria, handing ownership of Framlingham an Aboriginal trust on 1 July 1971. Along with Lake Tyers, Framlingham was the last reserve to close in Victoria. Protests in the 1950s and 60s for an independent, Aboriginal run farming cooperative at Lake Tyers received support and assistance from the Aborigines Advancement League in Melbourne (AAL). Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls campaigned on their behalf, but when the Board moved to close Lake Tyers, Nichols resigned his position in protest.〔 In 1965, however, the mission was declared a Permanent Reserve and in 1971 the remaining residents, then only comprising a couple of hundred residents, were granted freehold title of the remaining as part of a self-governing community under the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust, with each adult and child receiving a parcel of shares.〔 The Aborigines Advancement League had previously as expressed concern for the loss of Aboriginal land in 1948, when it told the government that ''land titles of Lake Tyers must be transferred with due precaution in the matter of safeguard to prevent any attempted dispossession of the Aborigines and mixed bloods by any person''.〔(Australian Aborigines' League, Terms of Reference for an Enquiry, 4 March 1948, Council for Aboriginal Rights (Vic.) Papers, MS 12913/8/1, State Library of Victoria )〕 Shortly after, Laurie Moffatt, explained as spokesman for Lake Tyers residents: :''We do not want to see Lake Tyers finally sold to the white man in the same way as Ramahyuck, Condah, Ebenezer Mission and Coranderrk Reserves have been sold. All these have been hostels for the aborigines in my lifetime and have been sold to the white man to cultivate.〔''The Argus'', 28 January 1952.〕'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lake Tyers Mission」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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