There’s no way of knowing what records were created & are still held by NGO’s about Aboriginal children removed from their families.
There’s no way of knowing what records were created & are still held by NGO’s about Aboriginal children removed from their families.
From the Guardian “When the United Aborigines Mission wound up in 2020, boxes of records disappeared – leaving stolen generations survivors with agonising questions”
Revered Elder Uncle Jack Charles leaves a powerful legacy that will continue to impact on our country for many years to come.
In NAIDOC week, improving records access for Stolen Generations should be a priority for archives everywhere. This training is still available, just as important as it was when first posted in 2021, and provided free.
A project that documents the stories of people who spent time in care, in their own words & on their own terms, is coming to a close.
The Healing Foundation has developed training that will improve records access for Stolen Generations in collaboration with experts, including Find & Connect
The Stolen Generations Steering Committee are inviting Stolen Generations and family to yarn about a Reparations package
Putting people in control of the narrative around their time in care with their own stories & in their own words.
Guest Post: “The colonial archive continues to have a disempowering impact on our people whose lives have been extensively documented and controlled for the purposes of surveillance and dispossession.”
Reading the reports from the deaths in custody Royal Commission, there are many ideas which still resonate today – about access to archival records, about the intergenerational legacy of institutionalisation, about justice.
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