{"id":54054,"date":"2017-05-28T22:50:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T22:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54054"},"modified":"2017-05-28T22:57:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T22:57:23","slug":"australias-stolen-generations-tell-their-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54054","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s \u2018Stolen Generations\u2019 Tell Their Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia\u2019s \u2018Stolen Generations\u2019 Tell Their Stories<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Lens: Photography, Video and Visual Journalism<\/a>
\nThe New York Times<\/a>
\n2017-05-24<\/p>\n

Evelyn Nieves<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMargaret Furber was born in Alice Springs, Australia<\/a>, in 1947. She was placed in St. Mary\u2019s Hostel on the outskirts of town because her mother was not able to take care of her. Her siblings were all sent to the Tiwi Islands<\/a>. \u201cWe were all taken and separated in different ways,\u201d she told the photographer. Nov. 6, 2015.
\nMatthew Sherwood<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Alfred Calma was 4 years old when the police snatched him from his mother, never to live with her again. Joyce Napurrula-Schroeder was not quite 2 when it happened to her. Luke Morcom was a newborn, barely a week on this earth.<\/p>\n

All had the bad luck of being born \u201chalf caste<\/a>\u201d during Australia\u2019s<\/a> disastrous experiment with forced assimilation<\/a>. For 60 years, until 1970, government policies rounded up Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander<\/a> children deemed to be part-white and sent them to boarding schools and church-run missions. Like the Canadian First Nations\u2019<\/a> and the United States\u2019 Indian boarding schools<\/a> that served as its model, Australia\u2019s program aimed to beat out all traces of indigenous culture, often literally.<\/p>\n

Run more like penal colonies than schools, these institutions scarred their young wards and their communities for life.<\/p>\n

Decades later, when Matthew Sherwood<\/a>, a Canadian photojournalist, began documenting survivors of the boarding schools \u2014 the \u201cstolen generations<\/a>,\u201d as Australia calls them \u2014 they unleashed hellish memories where neglect was the best it ever got…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alfred Calma was 4 years old when the police snatched him from his mother, never to live with her again. Joyce Napurrula-Schroeder was not quite 2 when it happened to her. Luke Morcom was a newborn, barely a week on this earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,395,8,4405],"tags":[27038,986,27041,27040,27039,27037,27042,147],"class_list":["post-54054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-oceania","tag-alfred-calma","tag-australia","tag-evelyn-nieves","tag-joyce-napurrula-schroeder","tag-luke-morcom","tag-margaret-furber","tag-matthew-sherwood","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54056,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54054\/revisions\/54056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}