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Download or read book White Man's Dreaming written by Christine Stevens and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading missionaries, Johann Georg Reuther, reported that mission work was 'a stony field ... full of human bones'. Although their proselytising was largely a failure, some of the missionaries undertook valuable linguistic and ethnological work, documenting the language customs and religion of the Diyari. In 1893 Reuther, along with Carl Strehlow, set out to translate the New Testament into the Diyari language.