Marie Yamba Aboriginal Mission

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Marie Yamba was a Lutheran church mission active between 1887 and 1902, and located between Proserpine and Bowen in North Queensland.

In February 1888 the Missionary Society of the United German and Scandinavian Lutheran Church established the mission.{{Cite news|title=Aboriginal Mission Stations|date=30 October 1888|work=The Brisbane Courier|page=5}} The government gave them a land grant of 30 square miles to house their mission reserve.{{Cite news|title=Mission to Aboriginals|date=4 May 1900|work=The Week (Brisbane)|page=19}}

Mr. Andreas Christian Claussen, who had chosen the site of the mission, was also its first missionary.{{Cite news|title=Mari Yamba Mission - To Port Denison Aborigines - Interesting but Discouraging Work|date=12 June 1893|work=The Telegraph (Brisbane)|page=2}}

Local settlers initially supported the creation of the mission, and hoped it would become a useful way of controlling the local Aboriginal population, but over time they became increasingly opposed to it.{{Cite book|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/902775388|title=Marie Yamba, Bloomfield and Hope Vale : the Lutheran missions to the north Queensland Aborigines, 18861905.|last=Evans, Kay Elizabeth.|date=1972|oclc=902775388}} The mission had relatively little success in converting Aboriginal people, and by 1901 it was in serious financial trouble.

When it closed in 1902, 23 Aboriginal people at Marie Yambawere transferred to Hope Vale Mission.{{cite web |url=http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/atsi/community-history/missions/mainland/l-m |title=Mainland communities L-M: |website=slq.qld.gov.au |publisher=State Library of Queensland |access-date=27 June 2017}}