Stolen Generation

alternative stolen generation

1. AustraliauncountableCollectively, those Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who as children who were removed from their families by government agencies or church missions, between approximately 1869 and (officially) 1969.

   Marge Tucker′s 1970 autobiography, If Everybody Cared, was the first by one of the Stolen Generation.

   2006, Helen Calvert, Jenny Herbst, Ross Smith, Australia and the World: Thinking Historically, page 198

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   This loss of trust probably extends to welfare agencies tarnished by paternalism, patriarchalism and association with the Stolen Generation.

   2006, Gary Bouma, Australian Soul: Religion and Spirituality in the 21st Century, page 116

   2009, Michelle Pieper, Chapter 16: Sharing My Strengths and Winning against Obesity, Catherine A. Marshall, Elizabeth Kendall, Reva Mariah S. Gover, Disabilities: Insights from Across Fields and Around the World, page 211, I remember the stories grandma used to tell us around the fire or when it was bedtime of how she was a part of the stolen generation and how she made her way back home again.

   Around 100,000 children comprised the stolen generation, who were separated from their mothers and fathers in this way, causing untold stress and damage to the nation′s indigenous community.

   2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Sydney, Lonely Planet, page 24

   While most of the children reacted with sympathy for the Stolen Generation, they also appreciated the significance of the event, with comments such as “I′m glad that they made a sorry day and are saying sorry like good people and not protenting (sic) it never happened.”

   2010, Jennifer Master, Nicola Yelland, “Changing Learning Ecologies: Social Media for Cyber-citizens”, in Shaheen Shariff, Andrew H. Churchill, editors, Truths and Myths of Cyber-Bullying, page 237

plural Stolen Generations · alternative stolen generation

1. Australiaplural normallyCollectively, those Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were removed from their families as children, within some given generation (nominal period of time over which children grow up, before having children of their own).

   Ken′s mother is not the only member of the Stolen Generations to see the need to look back before looking forward.

   2005, Ken Isaacson, Stephanie Ford, “19: Looking forward—looking back: shaping a future”, in Claire Smith, H. Martin Wobst, editors, Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonizing Theory and Practice, page 333

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   On one level, this image of the reunification of three generations of Aboriginal women offers a satisfying resolution to the story, effectively assuaging social anxieties about past race relations, in particular the issue of the Stolen Generations.

   2004, Felicity Collins, Therese Davis, Australian Cinema After Mabo, page 145

   In many places, radio stations invite Stolen Generations people in the neighbourhood to tell their stories.[…]Some of the Stolen Generations sought redress through the courts.

   2010, John Bond, “21: Saying Sorry to the Aborigines: How the media played such a crucial role”, in Richard L Keeble, editor, Media Values, page 151