Indigenous Education & Perspectives
Assessment 2: Essay
Topic: The Stolen Generations
ELA: Angela Perry
Written By: Samantha Morrison
Student Number: 100169529
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following assessment may contain images and names of deceased persons.
This essay will define and discuss the event of the Stolen Generations. It will analyse the nature of the affects and impacts of the event on Indigenous Australians, reflect on the relevance of educators having an understanding of this historical event and lastly will discuss how the event undermines and supports the use of Indigenous language.
The ‘Stolen Generations’ is a term used to describe the actions of
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Reasons for not coming forward vary such as shame, confusion, the sense no one cares or understands, lack of awareness by family and friends and also some people find it hard opening up old wounds and prefer not to dredge up the past (Davenport-West, 2009). Many children who were taken experienced physical and sexual abuse by the hands of their caregivers; this can cause members to have psychological issues and because of the trauma of these experiences may prevent them from coming forward (Davenport-West, 2009). “The impacts of abuse on a child depends on a range of factors such as the type of the abuse, the severity of the abuse, the relationship of the child to the abuser/s, the child 's family environment and their relationship with their parents or other caregivers, and whether the child has previous experiences of abuse, or a history of support, care and love” (Asca.org.au, n.d.). Psychological effects are common in adulthood for children who have been abused and the most common conditions are depression, anxiety and increase in violence and rage. Indigenous people who are victims of ‘The Stolen Generations’ can fall prey to these effects (Asca.org.au, n.d.). Individual records were not accurately kept; especially for Aboriginal children many members of the Stolen Generations have missing, disjointed or incomplete records such as birth certificates, parents’ marriage certificates, adoption papers and other government
For this task you are required to determine the risk context associated with establishing a new business outlet, within the existing business structure. They will be required to review internal and external environment factors and liaise with all stakeholders to generate a list of risks.
The Stolen Generation has had a great effect on Aboriginal rights and freedoms as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders didn’t even have the rights to raise and look after their children and as a result 100,000 Aboriginal Australian’s were displaced and placed into white families. The lack of understanding and respect for Aboriginal culture also meant that many people who supported the removal of these children really thought they were doing “the right thing”. The impact on Australian life today is still being felt as the Stolen Generation is seen as a recent event has it only ended in the early 1970s. Children that where taken away back then now cannot trace back their roots and therefore have no record of their family history or where
The Stolen Generation has left devastating impacts upon the Aboriginal culture and heritage, Australian history and the presence of equality experienced today. The ‘Stolen Generation’ refers to the children of Aboriginal descent being forcefully abducted by government officials of Australia and placed within institutions and catholic orphanages, being forced to assimilate into ‘white society’. These dehumanising acts placed these stolen children to experience desecration of culture, loss of identity and the extinction of their race. The destructive consequences that followed were effects of corruption including attempted suicide, depression and drug and alcohol abuse. The indigenous peoples affected by this have endured solitude for many
Throughout the early 20th century, the Australian public was led to believe that Aboriginal children were disadvantaged in their communities, and that there was a high risk of physical and sexual abuse. Aboriginal children were being removed in order to be exposed to ‘Anglo values’ and ‘work habits’ with a view to them being employed by colonial settlers, and to stop their parents, families and communities from passing on their culture, language and identity
The Stolen Generations is a term that is well known by nearly every Australian Nationwide. They were the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders that we forcibly removed from their families whilst still children. The removals of these children occurred between 1909 and 1969. It is unknown how many suffered this but it is estimated to be around 100,000. The children were generally taken by Australian government officials or State and territory authorities as well as police men or other agents of the state. They had enough power to remove and then locate these children to other non-indigenous homes, communities or places like institutions or camps. Such institutions existed in places like Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia, Doomadgee Aboriginal Mission in Queensland, Ebenezer Mission in Victoria and Wellington Valley Mission in New South Wales. Aboriginal children were targeted because the Australian public and governments believed that they were disadvantaged, at risk in their homes and communities, they need a better education or a better family. They were being removed to be brought up in a white Australian family therefore adopting their habits and values. They wanted to limit the amount of children being neglected by their parents as well as those being affected by malnourishment because of their parent’s poor wages. This was known as racial assimilation, meaning they had the right to live as members of a single
The Stolen Generation has left a devastating impact on Aboriginal people, Aboriginal culture and Australian history. The word “Stolen Generation refers to the Aboriginal and some Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from their families as children by past Australian Federal government agencies, and church missions, from the late 1800s to the 1970s. The children removed were sent to institutions or adopted by non-Indigenous families. The forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children was managed by the Aborigines Protection Board (APB). This was a government established in 1909 with the power to remove children without their parents’ permission.
In April 1997 the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) released a report which was the result of the National Enquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. The outcome of this enquiry was a number of recommendations made to begin the reparation necessary for a unified Australia. For this essay the recommendation 9(b) will be explored as far as the impact and relevance within the Australian community and the education system, specifically within the Counselling profession. The Bringing Them Home Report recommendation 9(b) has positively influenced the way education of the forced removal of Indigenous Children is implemented into tertiary studies. This essay will begin by exploring the segregation and forced assimilation of Indigenous peoples which commenced in the late 1800’s and continued through until 1970 under various Acts in place under the Australian Government. Then it will discuss how government policies and practices have been shaped by the Bringing Them Home Report and the impact this has had on Indigenous Australian peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their communities, including the ongoing effects to the current day. Finally it will explore how the Counselling profession can benefit from educating undergraduates on the effects of forcible removal.
Identify five (5) significant historical issues or events post colonisation that had an impact on the health & cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
The Oxford dictionary defines the stolen generation as: “The Aboriginal people forcibly removed from their families as children between the 1900s and the 1960s, to be brought up by white foster families or in institutions.” But what the oxford definition cannot tell us is the horrible impacts of the stolen generation on the stolen children, their families, the Aboriginal culture and Australia as a Nation. The stolen generation was caused by European Australians belief that Aboriginal people were inferior to them, a belief stemming from the fact that the Aboriginal people had not industrialised and therefore they appeared primitive to European Australians whom had industrialised in the 1700s. The European Australians also believed that the
The purpose of this essay is to discuss the impact and effects The Stolen Generation has had on the Aboriginal people of Australia. More specifically, I will highlight how The Stolen Generation has impacted Aboriginal people’s health, by leading to mental illness and addiction. Next, I will assess the social effects the Stolen Generation has had on Aboriginal people through education and relationships. Additionally, I will discuss the effect The Stolen Generation has had on the amount of racial consciousness today.
From 1910 to 1970 an Assimilation policy was proposed to ‘die out’ indigenous people by manipulating indigenous children who were forcibly removed from their families to adopt themselves into white culture and forget their own. The generations of children removed under this policy were known as the ‘Stolen Generations.’ These children that were taken was left a legacy of trauma and loss that continues to affect indigenous communities, families and individuals. To retell this dark history of Australia, characters are important to illustrate the raw essence of stolen generations through the perspective of a child taken away or a parent of that child as such to have a great impact on the audience as they are able to visualise their journey and see their development through the course of their experiences.
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The Stolen Generation occurred when the government of Australia decided that the Aboriginal community and culture was not worth coexisting with the European descended members of society. In the Bringing them Home Report, Wilkes (1997) describes the policy as a way to maintain control over the reproduction of Indigenous groups; with the main aim being to ‘merge’ or ‘absorb’ them into the non-Indigenous population. This was achieved by the forced removal of Aboriginal children, mainly of mixed descent, from their homes without any formal requests or legal processes behind the damaging action. From 1985, the simple existence of an Aboriginal mother was proof for the authorities that the children were being either neglected or abused in some way and were removed from their mostly safe families (Douglas & Walsh, 2013). The impacts of the removal were obvious in the individuals directly involved, but the damage has entered into subsequent generations, where the emotional and developmental setbacks have continued (Wilke, 1997). Identity, family values, culture and community are all aspects that these generations lack as a direct result of the separation of the Stolen Generation from their homes and cultural practices.
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