The Stolen Generation is a term which refers to the number of Indigenous children who were mostly forcibly removed from their parents between 1900 and 1970’s. It is thought that around 10‚000 children were removed from their homes in NSW alone. They were either placed with white families church missions‚ Aboriginal camps or sometimes correction institutions. They usually received little education and had to work long hours. While the policy was implemented under the guise of being in the best interests
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The stolen generation was a shameful period in Australia’s history. They‚ the stolen generation‚ were a large amount of aborigines called half-castes that were taken away from their family if they were part non-indigenous. These half-castes would have been taken away without any notice‚ then brought to an orphanage like place‚ where the girls would have been trained to become a domestic servant and the boys would be trained to become stockmen. The plan for the stolen generation was to breed aboriginal
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The Stolen Generations The removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969 Peter Read The Stolen Generations The removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969 Peter Read Fourth reprint (2006) First published in 1981 ISBN 0-646-46221-0 Foreword In 1981‚ the Department of Aboriginal Affairs published a ground-breaking paper on the Stolen Generations. The paper‚ written by Peter Read‚ was among the first attempts to document the devastation of forcibly
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RE: Letter to the editor In reply to your letter‚ I would like to inform you‚ that the policy regarding the removal of Aboriginal children was not as you stated. As soon as a child was born‚ they were considered a ward of the state because of their Aboriginality. The policy of Assimilation was established in 1911 for the removal of children from their community to extinguish their culture. This is also known as Genocide‚ but was not seen that way until the policy was removed in the mid 1960s.
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In response to the Royal Commission Report‚ the Canadian government issued a Statement of Reconciliation in 1998. In it the government acknowledged that the Canadian residential school system separated many children from their families and communities and prevented them from speaking their own languages and from learning about their own heritage and cultures. The government further accepted the key role it had played in the development and administration of the schools. Children who were the victims
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“It was not the children that were stolen‚ but their soul.” Discuss. Jane Harrison’s novel Stolen shows how children’s souls are stolen and the tragic effects of it. The main five characters‚ representing Stolen Generations which refers to the children being taken away from their Aboriginal family‚ had different life experiences. It is their experiences reflect their stolen souls‚ including loss of culture‚ misunderstanding of personal identity and destroyed emotional and spiritual world. There
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Assignment 3 The Stolen Generations policy brings many effects for the Indigenous people in the past. It has its effects even on the Indigenous families and Indigenous communities. These effects on the Indigenous people exist from the past until the present. Besides‚ many of Indigenous people have its continued effects at the moment because they were taken away from their parents since they were very young. Therefore‚ the question of research project is about “How does the Stolen Generations policy affect
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[pic] A short history of the systematic Removal of Aboriginal Children from their Families in NSW. “Indigenous children have been forcibly separated from their families and communities since the very first days of the European occupation of Australia” obtained from the Bringing Them Home Report Who are the Stolen Generations The term ‘stolen generations” is in reference to those Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed‚ as children‚ from their families and
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their Aboriginal background‚ being mistreated‚ and having their innocents corrupted really upset me. Another aspect of history that really got to me was the story Rebecca told the class. The history on ‘closed adoptions’ that Rebecca was personally apart of. Sitting in the lecture theatre and taking in all the information that was put forward‚ really opened my mind up to a lot of the horrific issues surrounding the Indigenous people of Australia. When first being exposed to the Stolen Generation
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to white society than Indigenous adults. As the Australian Aboriginal people were not able to live as the white people wanted them to do‚ between the years of 1883 – 1969‚ the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions‚ ordered for the removal of their children from their families. The generations of children removed under these policies became known as the Stolen Generations. These acts‚ caused the Aboriginal people a lot of pain and suffering as families are broken and
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