Isobel May "Mysie" Schenk, BEM (née Johnston; 10 January 1898 – 6 October 1980)[1] was a Christian missionary who worked for many years alongside her husband, Rev.
The mission was made a central 'rationing station' and was visited by anthropologists and researchers including A. P. Elkin, Phyllis Kaberry, Joseph Birdsell and Norman Tindale.
Along with the Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia, these researchers engaged in the assimilation debates of the day.
Schenk's "unsympathetic and fundamentalist interference with traditional practices"—such as infanticide, the ritual drinking of blood ... and in-law avoidance laws—attracted criticism from A. P. Elkin, and resistance from Aboriginal elders.
Isobel May Schenk was awarded the BEM in the 1978 New Year Honours for her work in Aboriginal welfare.