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Being an Aboriginal person in the 1930s 

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Being an Aboriginal person in the 1930s 

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Being an Aboriginal person in the 1930s was terrifying and awful both for the stolen generation and their parents. Back at the time Aboriginals were looked not even as people. It was horrifying for the parents to know their children can be taken away from them.

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Today in Australia, lots of change but a lot of the old ideas still exist in the aboriginal people and the way they are treated.

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Aboriginals were seen as no better than animals. They were treated as another animal that was to be domesticated and used in western society. Their culture and traditions were completely ignored and were seen as primal. As a result their culture had been disregarded.

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Being an Aboriginal person in Australia during the 1930's

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Being an Aboriginal person in Australia during the 1930's

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Being an Aboriginal person in Australia during the 30's was a dehumanising and traumatic time. Children were taken from their parents and put into camps or given to foster parents. They were taught how to be a part of European society, and had their culture stripped from them. Even if they did everything to fit in, they still couldn't, because white Australians would treat them differently anyway. The English stripped the rights from the Aboriginal people and tried to destroy their culture, and in the process, they damaged and scarred entire generations of people, and left generational trauma still felt today.

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What was it like being an aboriginal in Australis in the 1930s

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What was it like being an aboriginal in Australis in the 1930s

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Aboriginals were treated as a sort of government property. They had to apply for permission to marry, and the government could take their kids at any time without permission.

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Aboriginal children were taken from their homes at a very young age and this caused a very big disconnection between them, their family, and their culture.

However, while staying at the different settlements/homes/orphanages etc, most of the children seemed to enjoy themselves and participate in many games or activities.

The problem was that they never knew when they would be moved to new places or homes and this led most of them to neglect making relationships with many of the other children.

Being away from your home and your culture is like being torn from your purpose (like how Lev was in Unwind), however the difference is that all the aboriginal children still have that connection to their family and culture. In the film this is shown by the fence. I think this idea comes from the fact that in Aboriginal culture, they think of everything as a part of them, the land, the animals, and the people around them. This makes everything seem interconnected, and no matter how far away you are from your family, there is still something there connecting you, whether it's a spirit, the land, an animal etc.

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The Aboriginal people of Australia were constantly being dehumanized. They weren't even considered human. The new laws removed Aboriginal people's rights, and took away guardianship of their own children. It must have been traumatic for all of them. They had to live knowing their children could be taken away, all because the european settlers thought of the aboriginal people as less than themselves because they did things differently. They were constantly living in fear not knowing what could happen to them, and their families.

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For most of the aboriginals, especially the aboriginals who were taken when they were quite young, lost a connection to their family. Most never saw any of their sibling or parents ever again and had to grow up completely alone.

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being an aboriginal child in this time would have been extremely traumatic. getting taken away from your parents at such a young age can cause trauma that lasts a lifetime. living at a place like moore river and having to to learn how to act which is very different to how you were raised and then being punished cruelly for small mistakes would have installed great fear in these children and there was nothing they could do.

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It was extremely scary, children who were taken away from their parents at such a young age had begun to lose their culture and memories as time went on. But small fragments of memories of a person or a place would still linger, causing more After all the oppression and separation, once the children of the stolen generation were able to gain their own independence again many would go out and find their family members again and relive in their culture. This would of made them feel, in a way, disconnected to their culture since the erasure of it was so big in their childhood. Yet a sense of unity would exist within their stolen generation due to the mass amount of children who faced the same issues. It must've felt so degrading to be regarded as lesser than others and have their identity be suppressed as it was deemed not suitable for the colonizer's vision.

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Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.

People first migrated to Australia at least 65,000 years ago and formed as many as 500 language-based groups.[3] They have a broadly shared, complex genetic history, but only in the last 200 years were they defined as, and started to self-identify as, a single group. Aboriginal identity has changed over time and place, with family lineage, self-identification and community acceptance all of varying importance.

Aboriginal Australians have a wide variety of cultural practices and beliefs that make up the oldest continuous cultures in the world.[4][5] At the time of European colonisation of Australia, they consisted of complex cultural societies with more than 250 languages[6] and varying degrees of technology and settlements.[vague] Languages (or dialects) and language-associated groups of people are connected with stretches of territory known as "Country", with which they have a profound spiritual connection. Over the millennia, Aboriginal people developed complex trade networks, inter-cultural relationships, law and religions.[3][7]

Contemporary Aboriginal beliefs are a complex mixture, varying by region and individual across the continent.[8] They are shaped by traditional beliefs, the disruption of colonisation, religions brought to the continent by Europeans, and contemporary issues.[8][9][10] Traditional cultural beliefs are passed down and shared by dancing, stories, songlines and art that collectively weave an ontology of modern daily life and ancient creation known as Dreaming.

In the past, Aboriginal people lived over large sections of the continental shelf and were isolated on many of the smaller offshore islands and Tasmania when the land was inundated at the start of the Holocene inter-glacial period, about 11,700 years ago. Despite this, Aboriginal people maintained extensive networks within the continent and certain groups maintained relationships with Torres Strait Islanders and the Makassar people of modern-day Indonesia. Studies of Aboriginal groups' genetic makeup are ongoing, but evidence suggests that they have genetic inheritance from ancient Asian but not more modern peoples, and share some similarities with Papuans, nbuti havegg beene isolatedr from Southeast Asia for a very long time.

In the 2021 census, Indigenous Australians comprised 3.8% of Australia's population.[1]

Most Aboriginal people today speak English and live in cities, and some may use Aboriginal phrases and words in Australian Aboriginal English (which also has a tangible influence of Aboriginal languages in the phonology and grammatical structure). Many but not all also speak traditional languages.

Aboriginal people, along with Torres Strait Islander people, have a number of severe health and economic deprivations in comparison with the wider Australian community.

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They were classified as less than human and were treated as pests that needed to be dealt with. They were also seen as non human as the punishment for killing one was as bad as the punishment for killing something like a dog

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Being an Aborigional in 1930's Australia

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Being an Aborigional in 1930's Australia

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Being an Aborigional in the 1930's in Australia was very bad. You would've been dehumanized into being animals that were hunted. Once you were captured - you'd be stripped of your culture and traditions, and had to learn white customs instead. At these schools/camps you'd be treated very badly - one account said that his nose was rubbed in his own urine as a punishment. Not only the stolen children were impacted, but the parents were also because their children were taken and that would be torurous for the parents.

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Being an Aboriginal person in the 1930s frustrating and awful. Aboriginal mothers constantly had the knowledge that their child could be snatched away from them with no way to stop it, all because it was the law. Their identities were taken away and they were forced to be people they werent, Aboriginal people would have had to live with not knowing who they are and feeling a sense of confusion all because their culture was taken away from them. 

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Being an Aboriginal person in the 1930s frustrating and awful. Aboriginal mothers constantly had the knowledge that their child could be snatched away from them with no way to stop it, all because it was the law. Their identities were taken away and they were forced to be people they werent, Aboriginal people would have had to live with not knowing who they are and feeling a sense of confusion all because their culture was taken away from them. 

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They must've dealt with heaps of trauma after being taken, they also must've had to fight the urge to run as they were scared of the punishment

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It was hard for them as they had to deal with truama and they wern't classified as humans so they wern't respected as much as humans should be.

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The aboriginals people of Australia weren't even counted as part of the Australian population. They were mistreated and even dehumanised. It would have been traumatic for them and could have left them mentally broken.

The parents of the kids will have been devastated as they were ripped away from their arms.

-- Alistair, Rainier

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they have to live a life that they were forced to take, and this reflects the idea of rights and dehumanization. As their rights were taken away from them (they had no choice in what happens) it shows that the Australian Aboriginal people were not respected, and they weren't seen as equal.

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It's about the difference of power that the Aboriginal people did not have compared to the government. Both the adults and children have to live in agony every day, knowing their children or themselves can be taken away from their family at any moment, and there's nothing they can do due to the difference in power.

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being an aboriginal in the 1930s Australia would have been torturous. they were treated like animals and dehumanised so much that they lost their sense of self.

they are being stripped from their family, culture, customs, and their home at ages so young. ripped their families apart and never seen again for the majority of the kids.

they were thought to act white and embrace their European part and discard their aboriginal part, thinking of it as dirty or disgraceful.

they don't even recive what was promised to them by the government. they told them that they would get all the things they would have been deprived of if they were to live the Aboriginal way. that they would teach them things and make their lives better. but instead, they were prejudiced against and treated even worse.