Broken CirclesThis major work reveals the dark heart of the history of the Stolen Generations in Australia. It shows that, from the earliest times of European colonization, Aboriginal Australians experienced the trauma of loss and separation, as their children were abducted, enslaved, institutionalized, and culturally remodeled. Providing a moving and comprehensive account of this tragic history, this study covers all Australian colonies, states, and territories. The analysis spans 200 years of white occupation and intervention, from the earliest seizure of Aboriginal children, through their systematic state removal and incarceration, and on to the harsh treatment of families under the assimilation policies of the 1950s and 1960s. The resistance struggle and achievements of Aboriginal people in defending their communities, regaining their rights and mending the broken circles of family life provides a compelling parallel story of determination and courage. |
Contents
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Of Citizens and Outcasts | 131 |
1 Nineteenthcentury legislation and institutions for Aboriginal children | 149 |
Special Treatment Western Australian Style | 208 |
2 Summary of Aborigines Act 1905 | 220 |
3 Chronology of Aboriginal Childrens Institution in Western Australia | 229 |
Fighting Over the Children | 288 |
Visions of Assimilation | 418 |
Making Nuclear families | 482 |
A twilight of knowing | 563 |
Maps | 620 |
Chronology | 624 |
Endnotes | 631 |
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Aboriginal Affairs Aboriginal and Torres Aboriginal child Aboriginal children Aboriginal families Aboriginal women Aborigines Department Aborigines Mission Aborigines Protection administration adoption adults Alice Springs Anna Haebich assimilation Australian Government baby Board boys Braedon camps Chief Protector child welfare Children’s Home Cited citizenship civilising colonial colonists Commonwealth Government cultural Diemen’s Land dormitory economic employers employment federal foster girls Haebich half-caste ibid indigenous institutionalisation institutions Kimberley labour legislation living Louis mainstream Melbourne missionaries mixed race Moore River Native Welfare neglect Neville non-Aboriginal Northern Territory numbers Nyungar official organisations parents pastoral pastoralists Perth Plomley Point McLeay Protector of Aborigines removal Robinson Roth Royal Commission segregated sent settlements sexual social South Australia South Wales staff stations Tasmanian Tasmanian Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander town treatment of Aboriginal Van Diemen’s Land WASA Western Australia white families workers Wybalenna Yarrabah young