pats-stolen+generation

Stolen Generations

**What is the stolen generations?** The stolen generations is a period of time from the 1860's to the 1970's where aboriginal children where stolen from their parents. The government thought it was the right thing to do, because they thought the aboriginals wernt raising their kids properly. It soon became the australian law. So they "took" their children away to camps, where they were tought how to read and write in english, speek english, eat english food like caned food. They took them to church and changed their culture to the religion of god.

**Why did they take the children away?** The took the children away, because they thought the indigenous australian where not raising their children properly and they thought they where not evolved properly. It became the law soon after peop le started taking aboriginal kids**.** Basicly they thought they were really strange people and didn't even know how to live or eat proper food.

**Why did we apologise?** We apologised because it was the wrong thing to do. We can enducate them 'the white ways', but not like we did before and yet they still dont have the freedom to live in the bush like they want because when you turn 6 you have to go to school until the age of 15. We are invading their culture, their home and their land. There is still another side to it. All their culture will die some day and all because of us (the English men- Australians). We also tricked them into us living here. They thought we wernt going to live here and start a big community.

**Stolen generations stories:** It was a cold early morning with the birds sing their songs and mum cooking breakfast. My brother lenny was laying on the floor still tierd. I was rubbing my eyes watching T.V, suddenly a loud knock on the front window. My mother did not answer. We have not had eney one knock on our door before. Another serious of knocking on the window. Finally my mum answered the door which was very rare when my father was not home. Then three men in suits walked into the room.

One man told my mother to pick up a brother see started crying in tears to realise who they were. She started to scream and scream and held onto us both. The one man snached my brother and toke him in a big black car and he snached me out of my mums hands for that moment i knew were i was going to go.

My mum ran onto the road fell on hers kness and screamed as she pounded her fists at the car. We looked back at her and i realised i would never see her again...

My big question:

**Did the government want to stop the aboriginal culture?** Yes, the goverment did want to stop the aboriginal culture. Some people are saying that aboriginals should not be taught their culture, because we (the white people) are here now, we own the land and they should learn our culture. People are also saying, we are living dual worlds, we are teaching kids our english culture and our aboriginal culture. Stopping the aboriginal culture was why they stolen the aboriginal children from their parents in the first place. The government wanted out breed them in other words stop them.

**Bibliography:**

Movies: -rabbit proof fence (the movie)-2002

Websites: [] -first viewed 22/5/11 [] -first viewed 23/5/11 [] -first viewed 3/6/11 http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/stolen-generations-stories.html -first viewed 16/6/11

People: -The sheet mrs ogleighvi gave me.-The apology to the Stolen Generations (revised) -My mum