Tongerie, Maude (1927 - )

Maude Tongerie was born in 1927 at Anna Creek, about 80 miles west of Oodnadatta in South Australia. She lived with her people (Arabunna) until the age of nine, when she was taken to the Finke River Mission for an eye treatment. She then went to live with an aunt in Oodnadatta so that she could learn English, and from there she went to Colebrook Home, a non-Government Aboriginal mission, in Quorn. At the age of 15 she started to work as a domestic with a family near Adelaide. She married George Tongerie, a young Aboriginal man who served in the Air Force during the war. In the early 1970s Maude became involved with the Department for Community Welfare, and has worked as a Social Worker with Aboriginal families, particularly in the Juvenile Courts.

• Peterson, Maude

Newsletters

• 'Maude Tongerie, Community Worker', Aboriginal Newsletter S.A., vol. 4, no. 1, 1982. [ Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

• 'Maude Tongerie, Community Worker', Nunga News, November 1981, pp. 2-3. [ Details... ]

See also

• 'Aboriginal Aged Persons Homes Trust', Kunmanggur, no. 5, 1970, pp. 1-3. [ Details... ]
• Baldwin, Suzy (ed.), Unsung heroes & heroines of Australia /edited by Suzy Baldwin, Greenhouse, Elwood, Vic., 1988, 400 pp. [ Details... ]
• Beeson, Margaret J (compiled by), Some Aboriginal women pathfinders : their difficulties and their achievements, Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Australia, Adelaide, [1980], 80 pp. [ Details... ]
• Shaw, Bruce, Our Heart Is the Land: Aboriginal Reminiscences from the Western Lake Eyre Basin,, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, ACT.. [ Details... ]