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Eastern Arrernte people that he met were "in such a deplorable condition" and that there was "practically no food". This lack of food, caused by the devastating impacts of colonisation, was a major factor that attracted so many Arrernte people to the many missions that were established in Alice Springs.
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on them. These wurlies, arranged into 'streets', were made of wooden framework and covered with old iron, bags and grass. These wurlies, called ‘Camp IV’, were not approved by the government and regularly drew ire from Alice
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At this new site McGarry, and the newly arrived
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A mission census in April 1937 counted 113 people in residence at the mission: sixty children, twenty six women and twenty seven men; living in thirty seven wurlies. By August 1938 there were 140 people living at the mission in thirty nine wurlies: fifty children, forty women and fifty men. The
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