Choose one the people presented in the website:

In your box tell her/his:

name, gender, age, family backgound and life story

2. For how long did this practice continue?
The practice began in the early 1900s and continued until the early 1970s.

3. How and when were these removals brought to public attention?
They were widely brought to public attention after the release of the Bringing Them Home report in 1997.

4. How many Aboriginal children were taken away?
Thousands of Aboriginal children were either forcibly removed or their families were tricked into giving them up.

5. Where was the vast majority of the children sent to, and how were they treated?
Most children were sent to missions, orphanages, or children's homes, where they were often poorly treated, and suffered from identity crises and emotional trauma.

6. What are the consequences for many Aboriginal people today?
Many Aboriginal people who were taken still suffer today. Some have become alcoholics, drug addicts, or prisoners, and many live with the psychological effects of losing their identity, family, and culture.

2. How long did it continue?
From the late 1800s to the 1970s, with most removals between 1910 and 1970.

It continued from the early 1970s and fully brought to the public

3. When did the public learn about it?
It became widely known in the 1990s, especially after the 1997 Bringing Them Home report.

4. How many children were taken?
Around 10% to 33% of Aboriginal children — tens of thousands.

Thousands of children were taken by the government

5. Where were they sent and how were they treated?
They were sent to missions, institutions, or white foster homes. Many were abused, neglected, and cut off from their culture.

6. What are the effects today?
Ongoing trauma, loss of culture, mental health issues, and distrust in government still affect many Aboriginal people today.

• She was born at Gogo Station in 1932

• Her tribe is the Ghanaian tribe

• Her father was a policeman (Steve Talley), and her mother was full blood Aboriginal (Agni Sharp)

• She had a happy childhood before she was taken

• Jane was about 6-years old, or probably five, she doesn’t know – when she was taken in 1938

• She was playing at Gole when the government took her. She couldn´t run. Then she looked in the car there was sitting  two little boys.

female 86 year old from L Range.

Mom worked at Anita Downes station, she was an organization and rode horses.

White dad Robert - named after him by the opductors

stepdad George Ni that mom married.

at 6 years old, her and her cousin got taken away but were seperated on the way bc she was sick.

she was brougth taken by ship to Perth 1000kms away from her home.

stayed at sister Kate's home for 1 year, then moved to Moola Bulla station.

they had to wake up early to do chores.

They didnt get anything like the others that got nice things.

Boys and Girls was seperated and wasnt allowed to talk to eachother.

her mother used to visit her.

when she finished school she started working at Downs station, without payment.

then she started teaching kids

then she went to Rome to get married, bc they werent allowed travelling otherwise. she had kids and grandchildren.