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    Rodolfo Paisley‚ Fiona. “Race and Remembrance: Contesting Aboriginal Child Removal in the Inter War Years.” Accessed on: 8th April‚ 2010 at: http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-November-1997/paisley.html Read‚ Peter. The Stolen Generations: The Removal of Aboriginal Children in New South Wales 1883 -1969 . Accessed on 7th April‚ 2010 from: http://www.daa.nsw.gov.au/publications/StolenGenerations.pdf Stannner‚ W.E.H and Barwick‚ Diane. “Not By Eastern Windows Only: Anthropological

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    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. Bessy Flower was born in 1943‚ and taken from her home at 19 months. She was a product of the Assimilation policy. Bessy was removed just the same as most of the other children

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    separated Indigenous people from European settlement and naively continue to do so. Present issues that communities are still facing is racism as an undocumented policy of assimilation in the Second Stolen Generation and the product of racism in large influential organisations being passed down to younger generations. Everyone is entitled to good health and well-being.

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