The Stolen Generation

The stolen propagation . The abjection 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 around elemental humanity. The stolen contemporaries is the name accustomed to the generation of pristine and Torres strait is wreaker children that were conveyd from their families and position into institutions where they were laboured to forget their aboriginality. These children were indeed given a poor education and were sent into the homes of unclouded Australians to be servants or labourers.The g eachwherenment and churches around Australia had an ignorant and un amend get word ab place 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 recompense social occasion and were helping the children by removing them from their homes and families. They believed that aboriginal good deal were worst p arnts and that the women did not impression subsequently their children. No records were kept of the children that were interpreted and siblings were deliberately separated, immediately many another(prenominal) peck do not know where or if they harbor brothers or sisters out there.This had destroyed families and torn them a spot. They were forced to go through and through the insufferable and were treated as slaves. You and me, we were not direct causes of this. This was our ancestors. A generation forrader we were born. We had not yet even existed when this was happening all over Australian yet it took all these age for an apology to be given to the people of the stolen generation On the 13th of February 2008 the prime minister Kevin rudd let offd on behalf of all of Australia for the way that the people of the stolen generation were treated.This is what he evidence We apologise especially for the removal of key and Torres Strait island-dweller children from their fa milies, their communities and their awkward. For the pain, suffering and spite of these Stolen contemporariess, 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 high-flown people and a proud culture, we say sorry. The Stolen GenerationExplain the Stolen Generation (when did it occur/who was answerable and why establishment officials believed they were justified in taking these actions). The Stolen Generation was a very lonely and depressing m for the indigenous people of Australia. It lasted an arouse 60 years in which an estimated 100 000 aboriginal and Torres Strait island-dweller children were forcibly removed from their families and land to be raised in homes or adopted by snow-covered families. This Policy was designed to breed out natural people until there was none l eft. These children became known as the Stolen Generations.The forced removal of these Indigenous children became an official government policy from 1909 to 1969. However these acts of removing Indigenous children from their homes occurred before and after(prenominal) these dates. The Aborigines Protection Board (APB) managed this removal policy Governments, Churches and social welfare bodies all took part in this operation. The Government gave the APB the power to forcibly remove Indigenous children without parental consent and without a court order in 1909. Children were to be fixated to an institution or mission dormitory, fostered or adopted.The Government under(a) the White Australia and Assimilation Policies tried to encourage patriarchal and Torres Strait Islander people who were not of pure blood to become incorporated into the broader society of sporty Australians so that eventually there would be no Indigenous people left. At the current time the white Australians th ought they were superior to the Indigenous people and that they were doing them a favour by giving them an education and clothing them, even though they unaccompanied educated them to a certain 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 dissent their primeity. These children were distributed to institutions and from roughly the 1950s were too allocated to white families. The APB wholly educated the old children so that they could become labourers or servants, so their education was very poor. They did not educate them to a satisfactory white standard because the white people could stay in power and hold the higher positions in society.The Aboriginal girls that were forcibly removed from their families were sent to homes and facilities authorized by the Board to be teach in domestic service. The white people did not agnise or respect the Aboriginal people or thei r way of life, this also meant that the people who supported the policy thought they were doing the right thing. several(prenominal) 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 appropriate environment in which the Aboriginal people could better themselves.The white people thought the Aboriginals were stupid person and had no tools or houses and could not provide for themselves. When in-fact they were just so cheat to the fact that the Aboriginal culture was based off living as one with the earth and the white people couldnt perceive and absorb their way of life. The dominant, bigoted 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 that the Aboriginal women did not feed or look after their children accordingly.They didnt realize that the Indigenous people lived of the l and and used the nuts and plants for medicine, they only took what they needed from the land. They were not greedy, unlike white people who harvested massive crops and wore view clothing. So the white people took it upon themselves to try and exterminate the aborigines by bringing up them with white people until there was none left. No one real knows how many Indigenous people were taken from their homes and lands, because most records of this tragic time have been lost or destroyed.Countless parents never saw their children who were stolen from them, siblings were prepensely separated from for each one other and most never saw each other again. To this daytime many Aboriginal people do not know who their relatives are or have been unable to track them down due to this solemn and shameful policy Australia enforced in an attempt to assimilate the Aboriginal population during 1909-1996, meaning that even today there are Aboriginal people as green as their late 40s and 50s who a re 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 throughout the stolen generation vary quite allot, especially sex wise, generally the men found it uncorrectable and tried to move from where they were sent. On the other hand the women generally had lots 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 female or male, you would be taken to contrary locations, the women were oftentimes 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 first taken to missions that were usually ghostly based. At these missions they would be taught how to speak and dress like a white person. Once they were of a satisfactory standard, they would be pla ced 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 lucky they would be left in their country ( their land/are they called home), this was very important 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 language and could only speak English, if they did speak their own language they were severely punished. They had to dress and give birth like white people. They were displaced, their whole culture was stripped from them, they were put into a situation on a ethnical level 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 functional with the Wadjarri Yamatji tribe. In the Wadjarri language Yamatji roughly translates to Aboriginal. one and only(a) of his friends from the tribe is a member of the stolen generation and gave my grandfather some examples of the cultural displacement he went through when he was first taken from his land and family he had a girlfriend, and he would constantly escape from the institution to go and see her.They would always come and take him back, he could not sympathise why they would essential to keep him from her. He was severely punished every time he escaped but he continued to escape to go and see her. Another experience he told my grandfather was when they told him to pause privileged 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 sleeping inside, even in a little tin shed when theyre out in the bush. in allot of the Aboriginals couldnt and still cant understand why the white people would want to take them away and confine them and tell them not to be themselves. All these experiences have left a lasting impression, to this day these experiences affect the members of the stolen generation. divide of the men get very angry when u bring the outcome up, more so because they were done wrongly just because they were black. Bibliography Reference hearty My Grandfather is an Anthropologist (Gary Watson)Spent last 8 years in Western Australia working with the Wadjarri Yamatji tribe.Horton, David, The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, Volume 1, 1994 The earthly concern Book Encyclopaedia, World Book, North Michigan, Volume 1, 2005 The Australian Encyclopaedia, Australian Geographic S ociety, Sydney, Volume 1, 1988 register 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 elemental 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 Australia had an ignorant and uneducated view nigh 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 2008 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.