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Children in a classroom at the mission, Swan Reach.

Swan Reach Mission

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FitzGerald, Paul. A study of the Gerard Aboriginal Reserve Community. B.A. (Hons) Thesis, University of Adelaide, 1971.

Life on Swan Reach Mission, 1925-1956 (sound recordings). A series of six recordings with Aboriginal women and men who grew up on the Swan Reach Mission. Interviewers: Sue Anderson, Carolyn Blanks and Rhondda Harriss. 1996. OH 358.

Oral History Association of Australia Journal. no.19, 1997, pp. 45-48. Anderson, Sue, Rigney, Agnes and Hunter, Richard. 'Mission life unearthed: an Aboriginal perspective on Swan Reach.'

Survival in our own land: 'Aboriginal' experiences in 'South Australia' since 1836 told by Nungas and others ; edited and researched by Christobel Mattingley, co-edited by Ken Hampton. Adelaide: ALDAA in association with Hodder & Stoughton, 1988