The name is absent

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APPENDIX XXV

SUBMISSION TO THE PROVINCIAL AND COUNCIL

CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF MERCY

ABORIGINAL ENCLAVE

within St» Aloysius¹ College
for Aboriginal students wishing to proceed to tertiary education
*

PROPOSAL

That an Aboriginal enclave be set up within St. Aloysius'
College, to commence operation 19θ5∙
That an initial fifteen students be admitted, growing
to forty over a period of years (i.e. about 5~6⅜ of
the total enrolment).

That an Aboriginal teacher be appointed in 19θ⅛ as a
regular teacher, a) to be a presence in the school
b) to contact Aboriginal 'definers of
reality' to Iegitimatethe venture
c) to screen likely candidates

RATIONALE

My research has shown the paramount importance for
Aboriginal people of the construction of Aboriginal
Ident Ity.

Among the problems in achieving this end are

1) the negative stereotyping of Aborigines by non Aborigines.

2) the lack of the cohesive group (Aboriginal) within which
identity may be constructed.

3) the discomfort of continuing with education In situations
of rejection.

4) the lack of positive models within Aboriginal society

5) the tendency for education to distance the educated from
the rest of the people.

6) the lack of theorizing about components of a specifically
Aboriginal identity by Aboriginal people.

7) the theorizing of mainstream society that nlhlIates the
'world' of meaning of Aborigines and places them outside
mainstream multi-cultural society.

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