Gary Taylor, I come from Kilenbaren in Western Australia 
and my people are the Nyoongar people. I was bought up   
in a place called Juring, most of my people lived in the one area
but one thing I do remember about the area in which I lived in is 
that missionaries were a big part of that reserve area where 
I lived. Missionaries played a couple of parts that I remember.
Missionaries played a part as protectors because I know that 
they would come and they would speak to the people and at the 
same time they would actually have a relationship with  
the Nyoongar people. So that in by saying that, they educated the 
Nyoongar people in many, many ways. They taught them English 
and Maths and they were schools at the same time. They played a 
very important role, but we must remember that with missionaries 
they also learnt the Nyoongar language at the same time.
And some of these missionaries later on became speakers of language 
and these people then became more or less like the carriers 
of the Nyoongar language where the Nyoongar people weren't 
really allowed to speak their own language - they were told 
to use Australian standard English language rather then the Nyoongar language.