"We, the native inhabitants of this Mission, have been living on this land for a number of years. We are very sorry to hear that the Anglican Church authorities have decided to close the Mission and sell its land. If this place is taken from us, then we would have nowhere to go. We ask the government to give us about 3,000 acres of Mission land, on the south side of the Tod River. We propose to live there and cultivate the land by working jointly among ourselves. We think that the products of this land and whatever supplementary income we can obtain by shearing sheep or fishing will be enough to support ourselves and our families without being a burden on society and the government."
Native Australians from the Poonindie Mission, southern Australia, petition to the Australian government, 1894
Source 2:
5.
"At present, our people get little or no benefit from being part of the Mission. All the money your government sets aside for Aboriginal Affairs is spent on White government and church officials, while the Natives do not get any value from it at all. Of course, the mission does a great lot of preaching and praying, but we old natives of the land could do with less of that and more food, clothes, and better dwellings. In fact, we are too poor to afford church clothes and too hungry to think much about praying."
Native Australians from the Point McLeay Mission, open letter published in The Advertiser newspaper, Adelaide, southern Australia, 1907
4. Which of the following most likely explains the land loss suffered by Native Australians as described in Source 1?
(A) The Anglican Church's aggressive missionary efforts in Australia
(B) Australia's rapid industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
(C) Climate change and desertification caused by Native Australians' farming methods
(D) The growth of Australia's White settler population as a result of migration from Europe
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the relationship between Native and White Australians was most similar to the relationship between Native and White groups in which other place?
(A) South Africa
(B) Qing China
(C) Meiji Japan
(D) The Ethiopian Empire
The authors of Source 2 most likely mentioned the subject of how the money set aside by the government for
"Aboriginal Affairs" was being spent in order to
(A) show that Native Australians regard missionary rule as preferable to government rule
(B)
argue that government corruption is harming Native Australians
(C)
express gratitude for the public funds being used to improve Native Australians' lives
(D)
give an example of how the relationship between Native and White Australians should be organized in the future