The Stolen Generation
By Soroush Jamali Pour
The Stolen Generation is thought to be the most devastating of the many atrocities committed by the European settlers. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Aborigines were seen by the settlers as a moronic and savage race that should either be educated as a white or be killed. 1n 1804, due to pressure by the majority of Christian white settlers, the government laid down a policy that any Aboriginal child seen with Aboriginal parents could be taken by white settlers to be educated as Christians and as one of the European settlers. …
