Background to the struggle of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for rights and freedoms before 1965, including the 1938 Day of Mourning and the Stolen Generations
Students:
explain the purpose and significance of early twentieth-century Aboriginal activism including the 1938 Day of Mourning protest for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
outline the rights and freedoms denied to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples before 1965 and the role and policies of the Aboriginal Protection Board, eg the control of wages and reserves
using a range of sources, describe the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were forcibly removed from their families (Stolen Generations)
describe the effects of the assimilation policy for rights and freedoms of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Chapter 4:2 Early Aboriginal activism (p.354).
Design a leaflet to be distributed to people on 26 January 1938 (Day of Mourning).
In your leaflet provide an outline of the following:
Why it is a day of mourning.
The impact of the European "invasion" of Australia on Aboriginal people.
Government policies of protection and assimilation and their impact.
What you hope the Day of Mourning will achieve.
To prepare for this, read pages 354-357, including Source 4 and make brief notes on the following:
How did European "settlement" affect Aboriginal people?
What is the difference in using the word "settlement" or "invasion"?
What was the "protection" policy and how did it control the lives of Aboriginal people?
What contribution did Fred Maynard make towards achieving greater rights and freedoms for Aboriginal people?
How did "assimilation" differ from "protection"?
When and what was the Day of Mourning?
What did it aim to achieve?
What did it actually achieve?
Chapter 4:3 The Stolen Generations (p.358)
What are the Stolen Generations? Thousands of Indigenous children, especially mixed-race, were taken forcibly from their parents and placed in institutions or fostered or adopted out.
When did it happen? From the late 19th century into the second half of the 20th century.
Who did this? State and Territory governments, through agencies called Protection Boards.
What was the purpose? 1. Indigenous children would be given limited education and training to suit them to a life as servants and labourers. 2. In time, full-blood aborigines would die out, and the mixed race aborigines would breed with white people ensuring that the aboriginal race would eventually soon cease to exist.
What was the result? The Stolen Generations lost family, land, kinship, language, culture and traditions. Children were abused in institutions. Parents never saw their children again.
Read the following sections and summarise the experiences of the Stolen Generations:
Bomaderry Aboriginal Children's Home
Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Girls
Kinchela Boys' Home
Foster homes and adoption
"Stolen lives, stolen identities" p.361-2 What were some of the effects of this policy on the Stolen Generations?
RESEARCH
What was the Bringing Them Home Report?
When did the Australian Government apologise to Aboriginal people for this policy?
Why did it take so long between the the Report and the Apology?
Background to the struggle of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for rights and freedoms before 1965, including the 1938 Day of Mourning and the Stolen Generations
Students:
Chapter 4:2 Early Aboriginal activism (p.354).
Design a leaflet to be distributed to people on 26 January 1938 (Day of Mourning).
In your leaflet provide an outline of the following:
To prepare for this, read pages 354-357, including Source 4 and make brief notes on the following:
Chapter 4:3 The Stolen Generations (p.358)
What are the Stolen Generations?
Thousands of Indigenous children, especially mixed-race, were taken forcibly from their parents and placed in institutions or fostered or adopted out.
When did it happen?
From the late 19th century into the second half of the 20th century.
Who did this?
State and Territory governments, through agencies called Protection Boards.
What was the purpose?
1. Indigenous children would be given limited education and training to suit them to a life as servants and labourers.
2. In time, full-blood aborigines would die out, and the mixed race aborigines would breed with white people ensuring that the aboriginal race would eventually soon cease to exist.
What was the result?
The Stolen Generations lost family, land, kinship, language, culture and traditions. Children were abused in institutions. Parents never saw their children again.
Read the following sections and summarise the experiences of the Stolen Generations:
"Stolen lives, stolen identities" p.361-2
What were some of the effects of this policy on the Stolen Generations?
RESEARCH