Aboriginal Spirituality - Dispossesion by Nadine Barnes https://padlet.com/nadine_barnes/8i19ba86snjp The continuing effect of dispossession on Aboriginal Spiritualities en-us 2017-04-26 00:58:52 UTC 2017-04-26 01:59:46 UTC hello@padlet.com Stolen Generations nadine_barnes https://padlet.com/nadine_barnes/8i19ba86snjp/wish/168264266 Children taken from their parents were taught to reject their Indigenous heritage, and forced to adopt white culture. 
  • Estimated that between 10 per cent and 33 per cent of all Indigenous children were separated from their families between 1910-1970 
  • These ills were documented in the Bringing Them Home Report.
The removal of several generations of children severely disrupted Indigenous oral culture, and consequently much cultural knowledge was lost

  • “Half-caste” children (a term now considered derogatory for people of Aboriginal and white parentage), were particularly vulnerable to removal, because authorities thought these children could be assimilated more easily into the white community due to their lighter skin colour 
'National Sorry Day' is an annual event that is held in Australia on 26 May, since 1998, to remember and commemorate the mistreatment of the country's indigenous population.
]]> 2017-04-26 01:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nadine_barnes/8i19ba86snjp/wish/168264266 Separation from land nadine_barnes https://padlet.com/nadine_barnes/8i19ba86snjp/wish/168264294 - unable to perform rituals 
- were unable to draw on the power of the Dreaming 
- suffered the loss of sacred sites 

 Indigenous communities were often forcibly removed from their traditional land, which meant that they:
  •  Were unable to perform rituals
  •  were unable to draw on the power of the Dreaming
  •  Suffered the loss of sacred sites.
]]> 2017-04-26 01:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nadine_barnes/8i19ba86snjp/wish/168264294 Separation from kinship groups nadine_barnes https://padlet.com/nadine_barnes/8i19ba86snjp/wish/168264314 As well as being separated from their lands, Indigenous communities were separated from their kinship groups: which caused:
  • Loss of language
  • Loss of culture
  • Loss of identity and belonging
  • the removal of children not only effected the parents but the community
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