The Stolen GenerationThe Stolen Generationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZtOIsgBqQ

The Stolen GenerationThe Stolen Generationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZtOIsgBqQ

• 1881: New South Wales

Protector of Aborigines –

Aboriginals forced to live on

reserves with no legal rights

and condemned to poverty.

• Between 1915 and 1939 any

station manager or policeman

could take children from their

parents.

• Aboriginal Day of Mourning, led by leading activist, William Cooper.

1909 NSW Aborigines Protection Act:

1: Control of money for assisting Aborigines

2: Distribute blankets and clothing to Aborigines

3: Have custody of Aboriginal children and educate them

4: Manage reserves

5: Supervise all matter affecting Aborigines

6: Remove from the reserve any Aborigines who should be earning their own living.

• In New South Wales alone more than 10 000 children were taken

from their families.

• White authorities went to great lengths to break the cultural and

family bonds between parents and children.

• In 1921 a Northern Territory Aboriginal children’s home housed 52

children in three iron sheds behind the local hotel.

• At the age of 14 most children left the mission of government

institution. Education for aboriginal children viewed as futile.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2YouNSLayA&feature=related

The United Nations Convention of 1948 defines genocide as any of the

following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in

part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group:

• (a) Killing members of the group;

• (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

• (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to

bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

• (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

• (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWjGteDg9VE&feature=related

• With your own knowledge, use of the textbook and

sources from the N.C.H.E website, do you argue that the

policies of the Australian government and the resulting

‘stolen generation’ was a form of genocide?

• National Centre for History Education – Ozhistorybites, Issue 2.

• Movie - Rabbit Proof Fence:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZtOIsgBqQ

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWjGteDg9VE&feature=related

• Marjorie Woodrow history - Member of the Stolen Generation: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2YouNSLayA&feature=related