In 1916, responsibility for Raukkan moved to South Australia's Chief Protector of Aborigines and it became an Aboriginal reserve. This followed the recommendations of the South Australian Royal Commission on the Aborigines in 1913. Included in the recommendations was that the government become the guardian of all Aboriginal children upon reaching their 10th birthday, and place them "where they deem best". Seven years after the Final Report of the Commission, the "Aborigines (Training of Children) Act 1923", in order to allow Indigenous children to be "trained" in a special institution so that they could go out and work. Since 1974 the community has been administered by the Ngarrindjeri people themselves; it was renamed Raukkan in 1982. Raukkan Aboriginal School is in the town. In the 2016 Australian census the population was 106 persons, all of whom identified themselves as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The school was established in the years 1859 and 1860 by the Ngarrindjeri people and the missionary, George Taplin. It celebrated its 150th year of operation in 2010. In 2018, the school which is operated by the Government of South Australia had a total enrolment of 15 students who are all Ngarrindjeri and a teaching staff of three. The Mission was mentioned in the "Bringing Them Home Report" (1997) as an institution housing Indigenous children forcibly removed from their families, creatin part of the Stolen Generations. Raukkan was home to James Unaipon and his son David. James Unaipon was the first Australian Aboriginal deacon. and co-authored writings on the Ngarrindjeri language and David was a writer and inventor, who along with the Raukkan Church, is featured on the Australian fifty-dollar note. "Granny" Euniapon was subject of a pastel sketch by Frederick C. Britton purchased by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1916. (Elsewhere spelled "Unaipon".) Harry Hewitt was a notable South Australian athlete who spent much of his life based at the Point McLeay mission. He would go on to play football for Medindie and Port Adelaide in a game against Fitzroy. Roland Carter was a labourer born in Raukkan and was the first Ngarrindjeri man from the Point McLeay Mission Station to enlist in the First Australian Imperial Force. He fought in World War one, was taken prisoner by the Germans and returned to live in Raukkan after being released at the end of the war.