Mapoon Mission Station and the Privatization of Public Violence:

Abstract

DisclaimerAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this publication contains names and images of people who have passed away. In November of 1891, Nicholas Hey (1862-1951) landed at Cullen Point on the remote west coast of the Cape York Peninsula in tropical northern Queensland (fig. 1). Hey was a German missionary, trained at the prestigious Moravian seminary in Saxony and tasked with establishing an evangelical mission to the Aboriginal groups—primarily the Tjungundji—w...