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The Removal of Aboriginal Children.
Within this essay issues including removal by force and coercion + strategies aboriginal people used to prevent their children from being taken by authorities, why aboriginal children were removed from their families, what the children did once they were removed, feelings during the time of the stolen generation, effects it made on the aboriginals afterwards and will be discussed.
The oxford dictionary defines key words:
· Removal –
· Aboriginal-
· Children-
Between the times of 1870 and 1970 as many as 100,000 Aboriginal Children were forcibly being removed from their homes and transferred to the custody of white families or raised in Church or State institutions. Between 10 and 30% of all aboriginal children were removed, Perhaps one in six or seven. The children of mixed descent known as ‘half-caste’ were the most targeted. ... To be aboriginal was enough.
Aboriginal children were taken because it was a Federal and State Government policy. The main motive was to assimilate Aboriginal children into European society over one or two generations by denying and destroying their aboriginality.
In May 1995 the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families were established. ... The report highlighted the stories and experiences of aboriginal people who had been removed from their families and the effects it had on them, their families and communities. Also a number of recommendations about what should be done to help people who had been removed, and how the pain suffered by many aboriginal people may begin to be healed. It also called for the Federal Government to apologise to aboriginal people.
Approximate Word count = 1339
Approximate Pages = 5.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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