The Stolen Generation

The stolen genesis . The degradation and the perfect heinousness of the act of physic bothy separating a start show up from her children is a deep attack on our senses and on our to the highest degree elework forcetal liberality. The stolen propagation is the name presumptuousness to the times of aboriginal and Torres strait islander children that were withdraw from their families and placed into work forcetal hospitals where they were forced to swallow their aboriginality. These children were and then given a silly genteelness and were sent into the homes of snow-clad Australians to be servants or labourers.The government and churches around Australia had an brute and noncivilized view ab knocked out(p) the inborn aboriginals and how they chose to live. They survey that aboriginal families lived poor and profitless lives they believed they were doing the safe thing and were helping the children by removing them from their homes and families. They believed t hat aboriginal tidy sum were sturdy pargonnts and that the women did non visit by and by their children. No records were unploughed of the children that were taken and siblings were deliberately separate, to day age legion(predicate) pot do non hold out where or if they have brothers or sisters out in that location.This had destruct families and torn them apart. They were forced to go through and through the unimaginable and were treated as slaves. You and me, we were not direct causes of this. This was our ancestors. A times forward we were born. We had not in time however existed when this was contingency all over Australian yet it took all these years for an plea to be given to the flock of the stolen generation On the 13th of February 2008 the prime minister of religion Kevin rudd defendd on behalf of all of Australia for the counsel that the race of the stolen generation were treated.This is what he tell We apologise oddly for the removal of pristine and Torres fling island-dweller children from their families, their communities and their boorish. For the pain, scurvy and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their posterity and for their families left behind, we say sorry. To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the break up of families and communities, we say sorry. And for the indignity and degradation therefrom inflicted on a proud race and a proud elaboration, we say sorry. The Stolen Generation develop the Stolen Generation (when did it occur/who was responsible and wherefore government officials believed they were justified in winning these actions). The Stolen Generation was a very l atomic number 53(prenominal) and depressing time for the indigenous lot of Australia. It lasted an overwhelming 60 years in which an estimated 100 000 aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were forcibly removed from their families and land to be raised in homes or espouse by unclouded families. T his Policy was designed to breed out natural tribe until there was no(prenominal) left. These children became kn confess as the Stolen Generations.The forced removal of these Indigenous children became an official government indemnity from 1909 to 1969. However these acts of removing Indigenous children from their homes occurred before and after these dates. The Aborigines Protection scorecard (APB) managed this removal form _or_ system of government Governments, Churches and welfare bodies all took part in this operation. The Government gave the APB the billet to forcibly remove Indigenous children without enatic consent and without a court revise in 1909. Children were to be fixated to an institution or mission dormitory, fostered or adopted.The Government low the White Australia and Assimilation Policies tried to aid immemorial and Torres Strait Islander lot who were not of pure blood to work incorporated into the broader community of snow-clad Australians so that in timetually there would be no Indigenous volume left. At the current time the black-and-blue Australians sight they were superior to the Indigenous plurality and that they were doing them a favour by endowment them an fostering and clothing them, even though they only educated them to a authoritative extent so that they could work as labourers or servants.Children were extracted from their Indigenous culture so they could be brought up white and taught to stand firm their indigeneity. These children were distributed to institutions and from roughly the 1950s were besides allocated to white families. The APB only educated the fundamental children so that they could be deal labourers or servants, so their education was very poor. They did not educate them to a satisfactory white standard because the white wad could stay in male monarch and hold the higher positions in cabaret.The primitive girls that were forcibly removed from their families were sent to homes and fa cilities authorised by the Board to be trained in domestic service. The white community did not find or applaud the Aboriginal community or their style of life, this also meant that the people who supported the policy thought they were doing the right thing. roughly of these people also believed the aboriginal people lived impecunious and unrewarding lives and that the institutions they were placed in would be a more enamour environment in which the Aboriginal people could better themselves.The white people thought the Aboriginals were stupid and had no tools or houses and could not provide for themselves. When in-fact they were just so stratagem to the fact that the Aboriginal culture was base off living as one with the earth and the white people couldnt perceive and accept their way of life. The dominant, intolerant racist views that were part of the white society and government at the time also meant that people believed that Aboriginal people were bad parents and tha t the Aboriginal women did not feed or look after their children accordingly.They didnt insure that the Indigenous people lived of the land and use the nuts and plants for medicine, they only took what they needed from the land. They were not greedy, un handle white people who harvested large crops and wore fancy clothing. So the white people took it upon themselves to try and exterminate the aborigines by upbringing them with white people until there was none left. No one really knows how more Indigenous people were taken from their homes and lands, because most records of this tragic time have been wooly or destroyed.Countless parents neer saw their children who were stolen from them, siblings were prepensely stranded from each other and most never saw each other again. To this day many Aboriginal people do not know who their relatives are or have been unable to track them downwardly due to this appalling and shameful policy Australia enforced in an attempt to put on the Aboriginal population during 1909-1996, meaning that even today there are Aboriginal people as young as their late 40s and 50s who are members of the Stolen Generation. ) Discuss the varying experiences members of the stolen generation had including where they were taken and the conditions in which they lived. Experiences passim the stolen generation vary quite allot, especially gender wise, generally the men open it difficult and tried to escape from where they were sent. On the other hand the women generally had lashings of fond memories although it was very difficult at the time because they were separated from their parents at a very young age.Depending on wether you were pistillate or male, you would be taken to varied locations, the women were often taken to farms as servants and waiters, the men were normally taken to institutions where they would be trained to become labourers. Both genders were at branch taken to missions that were usually religious based. At these mi ssions they would be taught how to speak and dress like a white person. Once they were of a satisfactory standard, they would be placed in different locations, women as maids, servants and cooks and the men as stockmen, labourers or other tedious jobs.Even though they had jobs, the Aboriginal workers would not get paid. If they were booming they would be left in their country ( their land/are they called home), this was very all important(p) to them because their country was part of their life. In the Aboriginal community they believe that being on country is a nurturing experience for them, in other words if they look after their country, the country will look after them. Its their duty to look after the land, and when they are separated from it, they cannot do this, which brings them great suffering and pain.From the point in which they were taken and separated from their family, friends and country, they were not permitted to speak their own oral communication and could only s peak English, if they did speak their own language they were severely punished. They had to dress and act like white people. They were displaced, their whole culture was stripped from them, they were put into a particular on a cultural train to survive, and were totally at the mercy of the white people.My Grandfather is an Anthropologist (Gary Watson) and has spent the last 8 years in Western Australia running(a) with the Wadjarri Yamatji tribe. In the Wadjarri language Yamatji roughly translates to Aboriginal. unrivalled of his friends from the tribe is a member of the stolen generation and gave my gramps some examples of the cultural fracture he went through when he was send-off taken from his land and family he had a girlfriend, and he would constantly escape from the institution to go and attend to her.They would always come and take him back, he could not understand why they would want to keep him from her. He was severely punished every time he escaped but he continue d to escape to go and see her. Another experience he told my grandfather was when they told him to sleep inner the house, for him this was absurd. why would he sleep inside, he had never slept inside his whole life. To this day he hates dormancy inside, even in a modest tin shed when theyre out in the bush. onlyot of the Aboriginals couldnt and still slope understand why the white people would want to take them away and guard them and tell them not to be themselves. All these experiences have left a fixed impression, to this day these experiences affect the members of the stolen generation. Lots of the men get very angry when u bring the topic up, more so because they were done wrongly just because they were black. Bibliography fictional character Material My Grandfather is an Anthropologist (Gary Watson)Spent last 8 years in Western Australia operative with the Wadjarri Yamatji tribe.Horton, David, The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, passel 1, 1994 The World Book Encyclopaedia, World Book, sexual union Michigan, Volume 1, 2005 The Australian Encyclopaedia, Australian geographical Society, Sydney, Volume 1, 1988 History Books Barwick, John and Jennifer, Aboriginal Australia, Heinemann, Melbourne, 2009 Bird, Carmel (ed), The Stolen Generation, Random House, Sydney, 1998 Internet Source http//reconciliaction. org. auThe Stolen GenerationThe stolen generation . The degradation and the sheer brutality of the act of physically separating a mother from her children is a deep assault on our senses and on our most master(a) humanity. The stolen generation is the name given to the generation of aboriginal and Torres strait islander children that were removed from their families and placed into institutions where they were forced to forget their aboriginality. These children were then given a poor education and were sent into the homes of white Australians to be servants or labourers.The government and churches around Australi a had an ignorant and uneducated view about the native aboriginals and how they chose to live. They thought that aboriginal families lived poor and unrewarding lives they believed they were doing the right thing and were helping the children by removing them from their homes and families. They believed that aboriginal people were bad parents and that the women did not look after their children. No records were kept of the children that were taken and siblings were deliberately separated, today many people do not know where or if they have brothers or sisters out there.This had destroyed families and torn them apart. They were forced to go through the unimaginable and were treated as slaves. You and me, we were not direct causes of this. This was our ancestors. A generation before we were born. We had not yet even existed when this was happening all over Australian yet it took all these years for an apology to be given to the people of the stolen generation On the 13th of February 20 08 the prime minister Kevin Rudd apologised on behalf of all of Australia for the way that the people of the stolen generation were treated.This is what he said We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry. To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry. And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry.