The history of the stolen generations began to emerge more widely in the 1980s, triggering a painful national debate about the morality of what had been done in the name of education and social welfare.ĭoris Pilkington Garimara - who died April 10 in Perth, Australia, and was believed to be 76 - wrote perhaps the most gripping and personal narrative about the assimilation process. The policy ended by the early 1970s, thanks to changing social attitudes and political will regarding aboriginal rights. In Australia, they were sometimes called “the stolen generations”: the tens of thousands of half-white, half-aboriginal children who, by government fiat, were forcibly separated from their parents and assimilated into white society.Ĭhurch groups, welfare officials and the police enforced the effort in the belief that they were saving the children from a life of poverty and ignorance.
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