The song "Took the children away" by Archie Roach Is about? The Half-caste children being taken away and the aboriginal people being fenced by the rabbit-proof fence. The welfare and the police told the aboriginal people that their way of life was better and they could provide the kids with better things but instead humiliated them.
Monday, 10 June 2019
The Stolen Generation ?
What is the Stolen Generation? the Aboriginal people forcibly removed from their families as children between the 1900s and the 1960s, to be brought up at the Moore River Native Settlement.
The song "Took the children away" by Archie Roach Is about? The Half-caste children being taken away and the aboriginal people being fenced by the rabbit-proof fence. The welfare and the police told the aboriginal people that their way of life was better and they could provide the kids with better things but instead humiliated them.
The song "Took the children away" by Archie Roach Is about? The Half-caste children being taken away and the aboriginal people being fenced by the rabbit-proof fence. The welfare and the police told the aboriginal people that their way of life was better and they could provide the kids with better things but instead humiliated them.
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