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 The June 10, 1954 issue of the weekly newspaper, //Papuan Times//, includes this headline: The June 10, 1954 issue of the weekly newspaper, //Papuan Times//, includes this headline:
  
-> Shyest Tribe Found In Our Borders (Papuan Times 1954b)+> Shyest Tribe Found In Our Borders (Papuan Times 1954a)
  
 The article reports on an Australian government patrol into the Highlands, south of Chuave station near Mount Karimui.  The article reports on an Australian government patrol into the Highlands, south of Chuave station near Mount Karimui. 
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 Elsewhere the paper quotes a former Papuan missionary:  Elsewhere the paper quotes a former Papuan missionary: 
  
-> “They are our people,” she said, “it is the same Territory of ours, and we must take responsibility for them.[“] (Papuan Times 1954d)+> “They are our people,” she said, “it is the same Territory of ours, and we must take responsibility for them.[“] (Papuan Times 1954b)
  
 ===== The Territory of Papua and New Guinea, circa 1950 ===== ===== The Territory of Papua and New Guinea, circa 1950 =====
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 ===== “Wise Highlanders” ===== ===== “Wise Highlanders” =====
  
-> Many more Highland natives are going to the hospital than before. Some have walked over 150 miles, crossed high mountains to the hospital at Goroka to get Medical help. Lately tribal leaders from uncontrolled areas (country that the Government have not yet taken over) have sent their representatives to ask the Government to open medical centres in their villages. (Papuan Times 1951, 3)+> Many more Highland natives are going to the hospital than before. Some have walked over 150 miles, crossed high mountains to the hospital at Goroka to get Medical help. Lately tribal leaders from uncontrolled areas (country that the Government have not yet taken over) have sent their representatives to ask the Government to open medical centres in their villages. (Papuan Times 1951)
  
 ===== "People's urgent need is God": Penosi Aieta ===== ===== "People's urgent need is God": Penosi Aieta =====
  
  
-> Penosi Aieta, of Logea, has just returned from the Eastern Highlands. He is keen to wake people up to the needs of the people of this our own land, who are yet very different from us. Speaking in the Kwato Church on Sunday he said he could tell many stories of life in the Highlands, of the quick growth of towns, plantations, farms and roads, but that was not what he wanted to talk about. He wanted to tell of people and their great need to know God. (Papuan Times 1953d)+> Penosi Aieta, of Logea, has just returned from the Eastern Highlands. He is keen to wake people up to the needs of the people of this our own land, who are yet very different from us. Speaking in the Kwato Church on Sunday he said he could tell many stories of life in the Highlands, of the quick growth of towns, plantations, farms and roads, but that was not what he wanted to talk about. He wanted to tell of people and their great need to know God. (Papuan Times 1953)
  
 ===== "People's urgent need is God": Penosi Aieta ===== ===== "People's urgent need is God": Penosi Aieta =====
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 The article begins by with a direct quotation from Vera Dickson in which she says why she finally chose to be become a missionary: The article begins by with a direct quotation from Vera Dickson in which she says why she finally chose to be become a missionary:
  
-> “why?” “Because my love for God was small and my love of ease and comfort was great. I thought of my pleasant life at Kwato, my home and family. At last God spoke to me clearly through my reading of the story of Abraham and his willingness to trust God, even to sacrifice his son. So I went. I determined to give my heart to the Highlands and was willing to spend my life there.” (Papuan Times 1954d)+> “why?” “Because my love for God was small and my love of ease and comfort was great. I thought of my pleasant life at Kwato, my home and family. At last God spoke to me clearly through my reading of the story of Abraham and his willingness to trust God, even to sacrifice his son. So I went. I determined to give my heart to the Highlands and was willing to spend my life there.” (Papuan Times 1954b)
  
 ===== “Home from the Highlands”: Vera Dickson ===== ===== “Home from the Highlands”: Vera Dickson =====
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 > Vera told of the difficulties they had faced and the shortages when they had to do without the things they were used to at Kwato. > Vera told of the difficulties they had faced and the shortages when they had to do without the things they were used to at Kwato.
  
-> Now she was grateful. Looking back she had learnt many things, through the hard times, not through the good times. + 
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 +> Now she was grateful. Looking back she had learnt many things, through the hard times, not through the good times.  
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 > Though she had had to come back and hand to others, she was committed to that work. > Though she had had to come back and hand to others, she was committed to that work.
  
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 > “You ask me how you can help us? What will help us is your surrender of your lives to God. Let go of self-will, let him be our master. We will feel the power of that up there and God’s plan for the world will move forward. In the war we saw how victory was won through everyone giving all they had to that fight. This is how we will win the people of the Highlands.” > “You ask me how you can help us? What will help us is your surrender of your lives to God. Let go of self-will, let him be our master. We will feel the power of that up there and God’s plan for the world will move forward. In the war we saw how victory was won through everyone giving all they had to that fight. This is how we will win the people of the Highlands.”
  
 +===== The limits of Papuan agency in colonial spacetime =====
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 +The Age. 1953. “Headhunter’s Grandson Is Higher Educationist.” The Age, January 29, 1953, p. 3.
  
 +{{ :talks:tribe:headhunters.png | Penueli Anakapu and Merari Dickson}}
  
 ===== References ===== ===== References =====
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