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The Stolen Generation Act

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The incident that I have been investigating is the “Stolen Generation”. The Stolen Generation act took place in Australia from approximately 1890 until 1970, when the white people took aboriginal children away from their families. They did this for numerous amounts of reasons, none which were justifiable for their actions. The white did this because they believed that they would have been steeling their language, tradition, knowledge, dances, spirituality and future. They also thought that by taking the next generation of aboriginals that their whole race would just “die out”. When stealing the children, they tend to take more of the mixed descent kids because the white people believed that they would “fit in” easier. After the aboriginal children

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