What are the Stolen Generations? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations…
"The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the mixed-race children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments. The removals of those referred to as "half-caste" children were conducted in the period between approximately 1905 and 1969. Although in some places mixed-race children were still being taken into the 1970s. Documentary evidence, such as newspaper articles and reports to parliamentary committees, suggest a range of rationales. Motivations evident include child protection, beliefs that given the Aboriginal people would die out, given their catastrophic population decline after white contact, and the belief that full-blooded Aboriginal people resented miscegenation and the mixed-race children fathered and abandoned by white men.
The white stolen generations are so-called to distinguish them from the indigenous stolen generations. It is estimated that around 250,000 Australian born non-Indigenous children were removed from their mothers from the 1930s to 1982 in what was widely seen by society as a whole at the time as a positive thing for both the mothers and the children. The mothers were sometimes drugged, tied to beds or told their babies had died. Many hospitals engaged in what is now known as institutionalized baby farming, whereby those children deemed "inferior" were taken and adopted into the middle class."
Wash It Away by Nahko and Medicine for the People
SONG HERE---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IBFMkt9KGQ
The white stolen generations are so-called to distinguish them from the indigenous stolen generations. It is estimated that around 250,000 Australian born non-Indigenous children were removed from their mothers from the 1930s to 1982 in what was widely seen by society as a whole at the time as a positive thing for both the mothers and the children. The mothers were sometimes drugged, tied to beds or told their babies had died. Many hospitals engaged in what is now known as institutionalized baby farming, whereby those children deemed "inferior" were taken and adopted into the middle class."
Wash It Away by Nahko and Medicine for the People
SONG HERE---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IBFMkt9KGQ
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