aspects of their identity, but brought up in White households without any semblance of their culture and forbidden to express any of their memories from their former lives. They were not allowed to speak their native language and contact with their families – if any existed - was limited and closely monitored and controlled. The fear of an essential genocide scarred an identity of victimhood within the Indigenous people (Laqueur, 2010).
While the Indigenous narrative was grounded in victimhood, the Australian master narrative at the time was one of the savior. This narrative was perpetuated by cultural leaders and maintained by the government, as few individuals had personal memories of Indigenous people and history was written by mainstream …show more content…
Not only were mixed race individuals yearning to learn more about their non-dominant cultures, but the nation as a whole was intrigued in learning more about the cultures and customs of Indigenous peoples that had long habituated the land. The fight and successes of the land rights campaign coupled with a new era of multiculturalism in Australia further harnessed a sense of identity and memory that begged for basic rights that had long been denied, including acknowledgment and reparations for the Stolen Generations (Lecouteur & Augoustinos, …show more content…
However, the report noted that it was not until the late 1800s that systematic means of removal were popularized. Children first began to be moved under the guise of receiving advanced education as special schools. It soon, however, became clear that they were being removed in order to be separated from their Indigenous communities. In the beginning of the 1900s, children started to be removed for reasons being stated as related to child welfare. By the 1940s, states and territories had adopted government promoted assimilation policies, which encouraged such removals. The report confirmed that by the 1950s and 1960s, removal reasons were often cited to simply be for assimilation purposes. The report explained that removals only began to slow down in the 1960s because they were not working at
While the Indigenous narrative was grounded in victimhood, the Australian master narrative at the time was one of the savior. This narrative was perpetuated by cultural leaders and maintained by the government, as few individuals had personal memories of Indigenous people and history was written by mainstream …show more content…
Not only were mixed race individuals yearning to learn more about their non-dominant cultures, but the nation as a whole was intrigued in learning more about the cultures and customs of Indigenous peoples that had long habituated the land. The fight and successes of the land rights campaign coupled with a new era of multiculturalism in Australia further harnessed a sense of identity and memory that begged for basic rights that had long been denied, including acknowledgment and reparations for the Stolen Generations (Lecouteur & Augoustinos, …show more content…
However, the report noted that it was not until the late 1800s that systematic means of removal were popularized. Children first began to be moved under the guise of receiving advanced education as special schools. It soon, however, became clear that they were being removed in order to be separated from their Indigenous communities. In the beginning of the 1900s, children started to be removed for reasons being stated as related to child welfare. By the 1940s, states and territories had adopted government promoted assimilation policies, which encouraged such removals. The report confirmed that by the 1950s and 1960s, removal reasons were often cited to simply be for assimilation purposes. The report explained that removals only began to slow down in the 1960s because they were not working at