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Wash My Soul in the River's Flow is an Australian film about singer-songwriters Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, who were children of the Stolen Generation. [1] It was written and directed by Philippa Bateman. Archie Roach was also a producer of the film and the team worked closely with Ruby Hunter’s surviving family.
AIATSIS holds 461 Sorry Books, representing hundreds of thousands of signatures and messages, from the 1998 campaign estimated to have generated around half a million signatures in total. The books are considered to have "powerful historical and social significance as the personal responses…to the unfolding history of the Stolen Generations ...
Release date. 15 November 2006 ... of the Yankunytjatjara people and a member of the Stolen Generations. [2] Overview ... Official Site;
A Hundred Years War: The Wiradjuri people and the state (1988) [2] Charles Perkins; a biography (1990) [2] Long Time, Olden Time: Aboriginal accounts of Northern Territory history, co-author Jay Read (1991) [2] Returning to Nothing; The meaning of lost places (1996) [2] A Rape of the Soul So Profound; The return of the stolen generations (1999) [2]
A portrayal entitled The Taking of the Children on the 1999 Great Australian Clock, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, by artist Chris Cooke. The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, under ...
Stolen has been studied on the Victorian Certificate of Education and New South Wales Higher School Certificate English and drama syllabi for some years - it is the vehicle through which a generation of young people have learned about the stolen generations of First Nations children. Australian Book Review writes "Stolen is a contemporary ...
In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home after Austria was annexed into ...
Roach was a part of the Stolen Generations, generations subject to a policy that ran from about 1905 until the 1970s where Indigenous Australian children were forcibly removed from their family by Australian government agencies, and placed in orphanages. Roach wrote "Took the Children Away" about this experience in 1988.