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    The Stolen generation is ‘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’. Before the stolen generation was even a problem within the Aboriginal community, aboriginals had ownership over the land now known as Australia for what some people believe to be up to 50,000 years. Aboriginals lived in tribes across Australia, Tasmania and many of the offshore islands including the islands

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    Throughout the 1890’s and 1970’s the event of the Stolen Generation occurred. The Stolen Generation is where Aboriginal and Torre Strait Islander children were taken out of their parent’s custody, by the Australian State and Federal agencies and church commissions. These children were forced to live in so called ‘white’ methods and were to follow their teachings and understandings. This presentation of the Stolen Generation will be demonstrating; what the stolen generation was, why the white’s only took

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    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

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    This critical analysis will portray how the text “Stolen” by Jane Harrison relates to the concept of belonging. Stolen is a play that tells the stories of 5 Aboriginal children that were stolen away from their families and were forced to grow up in institutions, following the European way of life. The children were segregated from their communities and treated as inferiorly. Their worth was seen as minimal and only useful to Europeans as slaves. “Stolen” is an example of not belonging to the environment

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    The impact of the Stolen Generations on Australian Indigenous peoples is seen in the sense of isolation and separation that overwhelms the children that were forcibly removed under the policies of the assimilation legislation. The children experienced not only separation from their family but also had their identity taken away, this includes not being able to speak their own language or practice their culture and religion practices. Originally, Australian Indigenous peoples were left to die out

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    Ola Oladipo Why did you take me? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be kidnapped? This review is about the book Stolen written by Lucy Christopher. This book is about a sixteen year old girl named Gemma who gets kidnapped by this man named Ty when she was in the Bangkok airport with her family. She was in a coffee shop, in line waiting to buy her coffee and that is when she met Ty. Ty ended up buying her coffee, but without her knowing, he drugged it and watched his plan fall into

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    A Stolen Life “Mother”, William said as tears rolled down his tiny face. His mother hadn’t looked or spoke to him ever since the British had raided their town, left them penniless, but most importantly took Will’s father to god knows where. Will reminded his mother of his father too much that she couldn’t bare to look at his bright blue eyes. “Goodbye,” she said in a shaky voice. She couldn’t look at him. She did the worst thing any mother could, sell their child’s life. She knew that she didn’t

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    Stolen Day

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    7th Grade & Stolen Day Essay Are you a boy that has made a stupid decision in a hard situation you were in. most boys really don’t look through and study the situation to make a good decision in it. A good example of this is in “7th Grade”. Also another good example is in the story “Stolen Day” In the stories “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto and “Stolen Day” by Sherwood Anderson there are similarities and differences between Victor and the narrator's’ character traits , problems and lessons

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    their loved ones. The bringing back of the stolen generation to their friends and family was an imperative event for the citizens of the Aboriginal people. It signified that they were once again treated as a human beings rather than being treated as moveable property. Many Aboriginals who could not forget the gruelling torture faced by them would live with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for the rest of their lives. This

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    The Stolen Generations

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    History Assignment “One of the great holocausts ever committed against a race of people on this planet” was the Stolen Generations of children from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander decent. The Bringing Them Home Report, also known as the National Inquiry into the into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families however was an extremely pivotal event in the fight for civil rights for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders as it initiated recognition

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