Daisy Bates | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Daisy_Bates_2.jpeg) Bates in 1936 | |
| Born | Margaret May O'Dwyer 16 October 1859 Roscrea, County Tipperary, Ireland |
| Died | 18 April 1951 (aged 91) |
| Resting place | North Road Cemetery, Nailsworth, South Australia |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse(s) | Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant, possible bigamous marriage to John (Jack) Bates and definite bigamous marriage to Ernest C. Baglehole |
| Children | Arnold Hamilton Bates |
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Daisy May Bates, CBE[1] (born Margaret May O'Dwyer; 16 October 1859 – 18 April 1951) was an Irish-Australian journalist, welfare worker and self-taught anthropologist who conducted fieldwork amongst several Indigenous nations in western and southern Australia.
Some of the Pitjantjatjara in Ooldea and the surrounding area referred to Bates by the courtesy name Kabbarli "grandmother." She was referred to by others as mamu, meaning ghost or devil, and as "that poor old lady at Ooldea".[2][3][4]
It was not until long after her death that facts about her early life emerged,[5] and even recent biographers disagree in their accounts of her life and work.[6] Bates remains a complicated figure in the History of Indigenous Australians as well as in Australian history more broadly. Her work is considered to be an unrivaled source of ethnographic data on the Aboriginal cultures of Western Australia, while her reliability has simultaneously been questioned due to the many false claims she made about her personal history.[7]
- ^ Land 2018.
- ^ Horton 1994, p. 109.
- ^ Hogan 2021, p. Chapter IV: 10 - The great-great-grandmother of that welfare mob.
- ^ Huntley 2023 Event occurs at 20:34
- ^ de Vries 2008.
- ^ Jones 2008.
- ^ Reece 2007b.