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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the Canadian government’s explicit apology to all the victims of the residential school system. In addition‚ the Minister of Indian Affairs announced the availability of $350 million for community-based healing‚ earmarked for those who suffered the effects of physical and sexual abuse. No monetary compensation was offered for individual victims‚ however. In reaction‚ victims of the residential school system turned to the Canadian courts. By June 1998‚ approximately 1‚000 lawsuits were filed. It is
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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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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 communities by government‚ welfare and affiliated church organisations. These children were
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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‚ I didn’t know how to feel toward innocent children being taken away from their homes. This was done by social workers and police officers that would invade the homes of the Indigenous people for the removal of their children (Gerrett 2013).
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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 children suffered from years of neglect and abuse in the government reserves and stations or in the homes of
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The Stolen Generation Most Canadians today have the misconception of residentials school existing a long time ago and is considered history when in fact‚ the last residential school closed 20 years ago. The main purpose of the residential schools was to force indigenous children into the Canadian society by educating them through the church’s teachings. The residential schools existed for 165 years‚ the first school opening in 1831 that resulted in victimizing about 150‚000 children. The system
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Stolen Generation - 1869 In 1869 the Victorian Boar for Protection of Aborigines was established. This meant indigenous and ‘half-caste’ children can be removed from their homes and families and sent to a reformatory or industrial school. The children were stolen from their families so they could be brought up t ‘white’ and told that being Aboriginal was wrong. The children were also expected to become labourers and servants and girls in particular to become domestic servants. The children’s legal
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the Stolen Generations from different perspective. Discuss with reference to style. Director Baz Luhrmann and Director Rachel Perkins both addressed Australia’s cruel and racist history and the aboriginal’s Stolen Generation in Australia and Bran Nue Dae‚ respectively. Both films follow the lead of Australian government and made an effort to apologize the Stolen Generation. Unfortunately‚ neither Australia nor Bran Nue Dae was entirely effective in their apology to the Stolen Generation. While
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The expression "Stolen Generations" is utilized for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals mightily taken away from their families between the 1890s and 1970s‚ majority of them never to see their relatives again (Creative Spirits‚ 2015). The colonizers arrangement
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