Aboriginal evangelist who spent many years at Hermannsburg (Ntaria)
Moses Tjalkabota and Sir Willoughby Norrie in 1951
Moses Tjalkabota, also known as Moses Tjalkabota Uraikuria or Blind Moses (c.1869 - 6 July 1954) was a Western Arrernte man and Aboriginal evangelist who was born at Laprapuntja (Ellery Creek), east of Hermannsburg (Ntaria).[1][2]
In the course of his work he came to be known as "Central Australia's most gifted evangelist" and it is said that he was a master storyteller and he attracted large crowds when he preached.[3][2]
^Albrecht, Paul, "Moses Tjalkabota (1869–1954)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 3 April 2024
^ ab"Moses Tjalkabota". Hermannsburg Historic Precinct. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
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food. Increasingly, senior members of the Christian community like MosesTjalkabota and Nathanael Rauwiraka played a part in instructing new converts,...
Retrieved 25 November 2019. Latz, P. K. (Peter Kenneth) (2014). Blind Moses : MosesTjalkabota Uraiakuraia, Aranda man of high degree and Christian evangelist...
Retrieved 31 October 2019. Latz, P. K. (Peter Kenneth) (2014). Blind Moses : MosesTjalkabota Uraiakuraia, Aranda man of high degree and Christian evangelist...
no. 1, pp. 67–96. Brock, Peggy (2003) "Two Indigenous Evangelists: MosesTjalkabota and Arthur Wellington Clah." Journal of Religious History, vol. 27...
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