Parramatta Native Institution: Aboriginal children remembered 200 years later

By Esther Han
Updated January 22 2015 - 10:13am, first published 9:37am
Governor Lachlan Macquarie introduced the annual 'Native Feasts' in 1814 to promote the Native Institution to Aboriginal people, who were invited to town to gather near St John's Cathedral. Aboriginal people were given roast beef, bread and ale. Photo: Augustus Earle, National Library of Australia
Governor Lachlan Macquarie introduced the annual 'Native Feasts' in 1814 to promote the Native Institution to Aboriginal people, who were invited to town to gather near St John's Cathedral. Aboriginal people were given roast beef, bread and ale. Photo: Augustus Earle, National Library of Australia

This week, Rosemary Norman-Hill visited a site of a school where 200 years ago her great-great-great grandmother Kitty was forced to abandon her Aboriginal way of life and integrate into white society.

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