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Aboriginal Children Stolen Children
Aboriginal children stolen from their families resulting to be abused by the foster families & mission personnel but also by other children. Many can’t bear their traumatic memories, and to never speak about them and yet many take them into their grave. Many non-Aboriginal people today believe that Aboriginal children were taken from their families because they couldn’t look after them. But that was one of the biggest myths ever told about the Stolen Generations. The stolen children were, in fact, mistreated and abused in home cares, if not by their supervisors then by the other children. The stolen children were raised by foster parents or missions, leading to getting rid of their Aboriginality. They were brutally punished when caught talking

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