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Reconciliation Plaque

The Migration Museum acknowledges the continuing impact that European settlement has had on Aboriginal peoples. The Reconciliation Plaque, unveiled in 1999, is dedicated to the Kaurna people, the first inhabitants of the Adelaide plains who were dispossessed of their homelands by British settlers. The plaque is placed near a brick wall which is all that remains of the ‘Native School Establishment’. Built in 1845 by the South Australian colonial government as a boarding school for Kaurna children it closed in 1852 and became part of the Destitute Asylum. The Plaque is a small step along the way to reconciliation between Aboriginal people and the many who have settled here and continue to come from all over the world.

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