The Native Institution

Cartographic Name: The Native Institution
Identifier: SITE-TNI
Contained in place: Parramatta-Blacktown
category: Reserve, Station, or Mission
temporalCoverage: 1814-1833
sourceOrganization: Governor Lachlan Macquarie's General Orders( 10 December 1814)
text: "aunty daisy, whose name was ‘Seini’, which translated to the English word ‘chain’. Daisy explained it, prefer Daisy, ““Self’d coz my name the same as something used on slaves. Do I look like a slave to you??’ I furrowed my brows at her dark brown skin, whide-flared nostrils, and tightly knotted black curls, and replied without even thinking, ‘You do. To our neighbour Shazza, you do.’" Indigenous Life Writing. Dunn, Winnie. Dirt Poor Savages. Hachette Australia, 2024, p.26.; "You called Mary now. Say your name, ‘says Mercy…’Naiya Muraging, no Mary." Historical Fiction. Janson, Julie. Benevolence. Magabala Books, 2020, p.16.; "the fear of ‘men in black clothes’ taking the children to the Institution." Colonial Instituional History. Brook, John, and Jim Kohen. The Parramatta Native Institution and the Black Town: A History. NSW Aboriginal Land Council, 1991, p.23.