Herman Pech interviewed by Gordon Dowell in the Bringing them home oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 711804
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Pech, Herman, 1921-2006, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1999
- 2 digital audio tapes (72 min.)
- Series:
- Bringing them home oral history project.
- Summary:
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Herman Pech, a non-Indigenous Lutheran pastor, speaks about his family background and education. After teaching in Adelaide for a short time, he and his wife went to the Haast's Bluff Outstation on the Finke River Lutheran Mission, N.T. in 1947. He speaks about the living conditions at Haast's Bluff, the relationship between the Mission and the Northern Territory Native Affairs Branch, Pastor Albrecht, and efforts to establish education programs in Aboriginal languages. The Pech family left Haast's Bluff in 1955 and moved to Melbourne.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 13 January 1999 at Box Hill North, Vic.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Detailed summary (3 p.) and transcript.
- Subject:
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- Pech, Herman, 1921-2006 -- Interviews
- Hermannsburg Mission (N.T.)
- Haasts Bluff Outstation (N.T.)
- Northern Territory. Native Affairs Branch
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care -- Northern Territory -- Hermannsburg
- Missionaries -- Northern Territory -- Interviews
- Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Northern Territory -- Hermannsburg
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Removal
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Government policy -- Northern Territory
- Race discrimination -- Northern Territory
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Northern Territory
- Other authors/contributors:
- Dowell, Gordon Charles, 1945-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Bringing them home oral history project.
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1999
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