Stolen Generations

child removal

Taking minors from guardians

• missionsAssigned important tasks
• reservesResources held back
• half-casteDated term, dual ancestry

assimilation policy · state wards · institutionalization · government policy

intergenerational trauma

Inherited psychological harm

• survivor guiltDistress from enduring when others perished
• identity crisisLoss of personal certainty
• parental separationParents ending cohabitation

grief · sorrow · disconnection · attachment disorder · psychological harm · PTSD · healing · testimony · truth-telling · survivors

First Nations

Canada's non-Inuit indigenous peoples

• kinshipState of being related
• DreamingAboriginal sacred creation era
• language lossDecline of linguistic knowledge

ceremony · songlines · traditional knowledge · dispossession · colonization · racism · self-determination · land rights · community · mob

mission schools

Religious institutions educating colonized peoples

• orphanagesFacilities housing parentless youth
• residential schoolsInstitutions for Indigenous assimilation
• dormitoriesCommunal student lodgings

church missions · foster care · adoption · state care · forced labor · abuse · neglect · records · archives · reunification

reconciliation

Restoration of friendly relations

• apologyStatement acknowledging wrongdoing
• reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
• redressCompensation for injury

compensation · human rights · genocide · injustice · acknowledgment · legislation · inquiry · Royal Commission · recognition · restitution

• Australian HistoryCaptain Cook, Commonwealth, federation, explorers, Liberal Party
• Indigenous AustraliaAboriginal art, Dreamtime, dreaming, corroboree, didgeridoo
• Indigenous AustraliansAboriginal, Dreamtime, traditional lands, Dreaming, corroboree
• oppressionoppression, tyranny, racism, repression, secret police
• Aboriginal AustraliansAboriginal, Aboriginals, Indigenous Australians, Dreaming, songlines
• cultural erasurecultural genocide, ethnocide, forced assimilation, cultural erasure, identity loss