#stolen-generations — Public Fediverse posts
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Brothers torn apart by Stolen Generations policies share their story
By Eugene BoisvertIain Seymour never knew he was Aboriginal until finding out he was adopted three years ago and then meeting his brother Allen Edwards, the son of a woman who played a key part in setting up a poignant memorial to the long-term effects of the Stolen Generations. Warning: This story contains images of Indigenous people who have died.
#StolenGenerations #Reconciliation #HumanInterest #Family #History #Volunteering #Adoption #DNATesting #GenealogyandAncestry #MonumentandHeritageSite #IndigenousAustralians #EugeneBoisvert
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A Day for the World to Say Sorry
From Australia’s National Sorry Day Toward an International Day of Truth, Repentance, and Repair
A PeaceGrooves Reflection
There are words so overused that they risk becoming weightless. Sorry is one of them. We say it when we bump into someone in a hallway, when we answer an email too late, when we make an insignificant mistake. Yet there are times when sorry is not small at all. There are wounds so deep, so deliberately inflicted, and so long denied that the speaking of sorrow becomes an act of public truth.
Australia’s National Sorry Day, observed each year on May 26, is such a day. It remembers the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families, communities, languages, and cultures under government policies now associated with the Stolen Generations. The date marks the anniversary of the 1997 tabling of the Bringing Them Home report, the landmark national inquiry that gathered testimony from survivors and documented the devastation caused by these removals. The report called not only for recognition of what had happened, but for apology, healing, reparations, family reunion, access to records, and measures ensuring such violations would never recur.
National Sorry Day did not begin as a sentimental holiday….
Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.
#AboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderPeoples #AnabaptistPeaceWitness #Australia #buildingAJustFuture #colonialism #globalPeace #Healing #historicalMemory #IndigenousJustice #InternationalSorryDay #NationalSorryDay #Nonviolence #Peacebuilding #PeaceGrooves #publicApology #Reconciliation #rememberingThePast #reparations #Repentance #RestorativeJustice #SocialJustice #StolenGenerations #truthAndReconciliation -
'A lot of truth-telling to do': Stolen Generations survivor calls for action
By Lois MaskiellRicky Hampson spent most of his life believing he had been adopted before learning several years ago he is a survivor of the Stolen Generations. Today, he is calling for more action and truth-telling.
#StolenGenerations #IndigenousAustralians #ApologytoAustraliasIndigenousPeoples #LoisMaskiell
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Bringing them Home inaction a 'woeful failure', ex-commissioner says
By Tahnee JashMick Dodson heard "soul-destroying" testimony from more than 500 First Nations people during a landmark inquiry. He says that 29 years later, it's time for action.
#IndigenousAustralians #Reconciliation #StolenGenerations #ApologytoAustraliasIndigenousPeoples #TahneeJash
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At four, her head was shaved and her clothes burned. Aunty Lorraine doesn’t want her trauma to be forgotten https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/26/stolen-generation-survivors-national-plan-ntwnfb #StolenGenerations #AustraliaNews #IndigenousAustralians
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Crisis of First Nations children in care will worsen under NT child protection reforms, advocates warn https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/13/northern-territory-child-protection-reforms-first-nations-indigenous-children-in-care-ntwnfb #IndigenousAustralians #AustraliaNews #NorthernTerritory #ChildProtection #NorthernTerritoryPolitics #AliceSprings #StolenGenerations #AustralianLaw
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CW: URGENT - PLEASE BOOST - LANDBACK
YOKAI HAS BROKEN INTO BKI WITH AN ANGLE GRINDER
If you are able to make it to BKI come down IMMEDIATELY.
We need as many people as we can to defend it.There are first nations yorgas on site right now.
Yokai has forced their way in with an angle grinder.The address is 174 Treasure Road, Queens Park.
Come down right now if you can.#australia #landBack #firstNations #BKI #stolenGenerations #indigenous #aboriginal
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Land Back 4 Stolen Generations
A Noongar-led campaign to get Sister Kate's land returned to Noongar people
https://linktr.ee/landbackforstolengenerationsSister Kate’s eviction (March 2025) https://nit.com.au/21-03-2025/16942/church-backed-groups-arrange-police-removal-of-noongar-women-from-historic-sister-kates-site
Stolen Generations Healing Centre
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-11/sister-kates-perth-to-become-stolen-generations-healing-centre/105032756BKI - BPU - RAHU (Dec 2024)
https://rahu.org.au/2024-december-bpu-rahu-lt-beananging-kwuurt-institute/#Boorloo #directaction #landBack
#firstNations #Noongar #SisterKates #stolengenerations #evictions
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The recent decision by Uniting Church to transform the former Sister Kate's into a "healing centre" was done without consulting the local yorgas (women) of Sister Kate's.
We encourage everyone to come down at 9:00am tomorrow, March 8th, to stand with the yorgas against potential church escalation.
#Australia #Boorloo #Perth #LandBack #SisterKates #StolenGenerations
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@vwdasher Guess she's not reading her government's health reports...
#stolengenerations
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-health/indigenous-health-and-wellbeinghttps://healingfoundation.org.au/make-healing-happen/
https://bth.humanrights.gov.au/significance/about-bringing-them-home
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CW: CW: Jamie Oliver, Racist stereotypes, First Nations, Stolen Generations, Cultural Appropriation
Jamie Oliver apologises after his children’s book is criticised for ‘stereotyping’ First Nations Australians
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/09/jamie-oliver-apologises-after-childrens-book-criticised-for-stereotyping-first-nations-australians-ntwnfbI'm no expert on Indigenous people, but think even as a white person it should be easy to spot grotesque racism and not do it.
But somehow, Jamie Oliver didn't have a second thought about writing a book with cultural appropriation, magical negro meme bullshit, and kidnapping Indigenous children. Worse, he put it in a children's book he wrote that includes a character of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage.
The publisher, Penguin Random House UK, is going "Oops, my bad" about it. They're not saying how a children's book in the 21st century got all the way through their commissioning, editing, publishing, and promotional processes without anyone asking if it's good or harmful to go ahead with this breathtakingly racist garbage.
#JamieOliver #Racism #FirstNations #StolenGenerations #CulturalAppropriation #MagicalNegro
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When I was a little kid in the 70s, I saw a tv news report about the Stolen Generations in Australia. I remember thinking it was so awful that little kids like me could be kidnapped from their parents by the church and government. I was grateful I lived somewhere where something like that would never happen.
All the while, I had no idea it was happening in Canada, too. And that my Dad and his siblings had been affected. And that it could very well have happened to my sister and me, too.
The last residential school didn't close down until after I'd graduated from university. And guess what? Kids are still being stolen by the Canadian government on a regular basis.
https://chatelaine.com/living/first-nations-fighting-foster-care/
#SystemicRacism #Canada #Indigenous #ResidentialSchools #StolenGenerations
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@blogdiva this was Australian govt policy for a hundred years.
White men raped the mothers and authorities took the kids.
The result was the Stolen Generations of kids, parents and communities traumatised.
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NT Stolen Generations descendants say $50m class action payment delays adding to trauma https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-24/stolen-generation-garden-point-nt-class-action-payment-delays/103878482 #auslaw #auspol #StolenGenerations #IndigenousIP
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Colonialism has mastered the crime of stealing our children for generations and then punishing and criticizing our parents and grandparents for how they originally raised children.
Then, they went ahead and stole, renamed & rebranded our sacred original parenting instructions as “attachment” parenting, “conscious” parenting, “gentle” parenting, “positive” parenting, and “child led” parenting.
It has been used as a tool of profit.
It has been used as a means of stealing babies from families, then forcing the mothers and fathers of those babies to take colonial based parenting courses in order to get their babies back. And those colonial based parenting courses are heavily twisted and skewed versions of our parenting instructions - but twisted and skewed so severely, so deeply, that they only accommodate and feed colonial agendas and systems.
It is a matter of indigenous parents today abiding to colonially twisted, and colonially backwards parenting “styles” in order to fit the criteria of being a “good parent.”
Here’s the thing though.
Residential schools, the 60’s scoop, the child welfare system, and every other colonial policy embedded in the colonial fabric of society was created to do just this.
Keep the children out of our families to continue the ongoing attempts of assimilation and genocide against our peoples.
Even today.
So rather than pushing for “attachment” parenting, “conscious” parenting, “gentle” parenting, “positive” parenting, and “child led” parenting let us open into, revitalize, maintain and relearn the original instructions of raising and nurturing children.
Let us heal and dissolve what generations of colonialism has embedded into our parenting styles.
May we do our best to continue that.
So we can continue to raise children in the ways that we were originally meant to….
For generations to come.
Because this is the least we can do for the children in our lives today.
-- Andrea Landry, 2022
#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #StolenGenerations
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The government is set to create a national commissioner to help improve outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. The announcement was made as the government delivered its annual Closing the Gap report on the anniversary of the national apology to the Stolen Generation. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/closing-the-gap-report-reveals-ongoing-trauma-and-challenges/4brulck8x #auspol #auslaw #IndigenousIP #childrensrights #StolenGenerations
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An aerial view of the old #Kinchela Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home, where an estimated 400 to 600 FirstNations boys between the ages of five and 15 were incarcerated under the policies of the #stolengenerations A report seen by the NSW governments has highlighted nine ‘suspicious’ sites of possible graves.
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I was 10 years old when I was taken from my home. The stolen generations never ended https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/12/i-was-10-years-old-when-i-was-taken-from-my-home-the-stolen-generations-never-ended?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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