Effects on those who were stolen
- Stolen generation effects and consequencesRemoval from their families has far-reaching consequences for children of the Stolen Generations. All aspects of their lives are affected.
Source : Creative Spirits
Removal from their families has far-reaching consequences for children of the Stolen Generations. All aspects of their lives are affected.
Some enter a lifelong search for their parents, others never succeed as parents themselves and turn to substance abuse.
Many feel that they are living a life surrounded by ghosts – people they don’t know but should.
News Articles and Websites
- Stolen Generations: I am the child of stolen childLet me help you walk a mile in my shoes. Let me tell you how the theft of my mother from her mother all those years ago completely derailed my understanding and experience of my own culture, family, language and history. Let me do that, not to make you feel guilty — but so we keep learning how to walk together.
- Intergenerational Trauma
Why many Indigenous Australians can't simply 'get over it' and 'move on'.
From the Library . . .
Shadow Child by
An account of the social injustice meted out to Aboriginal Australians.
Call Number: B 920.0941 FRAPublication Date: 1999
Saltwater Fella by
Years later, when I found my mother, I asked, 'Why did you let me go?' My mother told me, in a very soft voice, 'My son, you were going to school. I took you to school every day ... then I went to pick you up this day and you were gone.'
Call Number: 746.094 MORPublication Date: 2000
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Call Number: B 994.104 PILISBN: 9780702233555Publication Date: 2013The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home.
Sorry by
Growing up in a shack the remote outback of North-west Australia during World War II, Perdita's life is lonely. Her anthropologist father is distant and her mother unstable. Perdita makes friends with an Aboriginal girl, Mary and the two girls form a special bond. Perdita seems content with her life, but then her father is murdered.
Call Number: Family & Relationships - F JONPublication Date: 2008
The Burnt Stick by
When the big white man came to take John Jagamarra away to be brought up in the white man's ways, his mother tried to trick him. She rubbed the black charcoal from the burnt stick into John's skin to make him look a full Aboriginal. For a time, it worked, but the white man did not believe he could be wrong.
Call Number: F HILPublication Date: 1994
Remembered by Heart by
From life in the desert to growing up on a mission, enduring devastating policies in the 1930s to bravely seizing new opportunities in the 1960s, these are fifteen true stories reflecting a diverse range of Aboriginal Australian experiences. You can't change the past, but you can live a different future.
Call Number: SHORT STORIES: 305.89 REMPublication Date: 2015
Stolen Girl by Call Number: F SAFPublication Date: 2011
Sister Heart by
Poignantly told from the child's perspective, Sister Heart affirms the power of family and kinship. A young Aboriginal girl is taken from the north of Australia and sent to an institution in the distant south. There, she slowly makes a new life for herself and, in the face of tragedy, finds strength in new friendships. Poignantly told from the child's perspective, Sister Heart affirms the power of family and kinship.
Call Number: Family & Relationships - F MORPublication Date: 2016
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