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Biography of Daisy Mae Bates
Name: Daisy Mae Bates
Birth Date: 1861
Death Date: April 18, 1951
Place of Birth: Ballychrine, Tipperary, Ireland
Nationality: Irish
Gender: Female
Occupations: social worker
Daisy Mae Bates
Daisy Mae Bates (1861-1951) was a social worker among the Australian aborigines. One of the first Europeans to win their confidence, she compiled a unique collection of material about them.Daisy Bates was born Daisy O'Dwyer Hunt at Ballychrine, Tipperary, Ireland. Following the death of her mother, she was raised in the family of Sir Francis Outram, a retired officer of the Indian Civil Service. In 1884 she emigrated to Australia for health reasons, and at Bathurst, New South Wales, she met and married John Bates. She returned to Britain in 1894 and took up journalism but in 1899 emigrated to Western Australia, partly in connection with a pastoral lease in which she was interested and partly on behalf of the Times to investigate charges of white cruelty to the aborigines.Bates's reports suggested that the aborigines were incompetently and unwisely managed but refuted the idea that they were being treated cruelly. Having discharged …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…their tribal rules and customs and was critical of missionaries who attempted to undermine their beliefs and convert them to those of a totally alien world. She regarded the aborigines as a race doomed to eventual extinction but was concerned that the process should be as painless as possible. In this regard she concluded that what was needed was not "anthropological study of social laws" but "administration of British rule founded on our highest and best traditions." Further Reading There is little written about Daisy Bates. The best source of information is her own account of her life, The Passing of the Aborigines: A Lifetime Spent among the Natives of Australia (1938; 2d ed. 1966). Winifred Holmes, Seven Adventurous Women (1953), has a lengthy discussion of her.Bates, Daisy, The long shadow of Little Rock: a memoir, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1987. Blackburn, Julia, Daisy Bates in the desert, New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.
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