brainstorm!

The Stolen Generation
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-06-25/entertainment/aborigine.cinema_1_aboriginal-people-indigenous-people-richard-frankland?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ

Rabbit Proof Fence – movie – based on the true story of the "Stolen Generation" of Aboriginal children, who were forcibly removed from their families and placed with white foster parents.

http://articles.cnn.com/2008-02-12/world/australia.aborgines_1_aborigines-stolen-generations-apology?_s=PM:WORLD
→ Australia apologizes for the mistreatment of aborigines
→ For 60 years, until 1970, the Australian government took mixed-race Aboriginal children from their families and put them in dormitories or industrial schools, claiming it was protecting them.

http://www.librarything.com/work/7455724
documentary on the stolen generation
and another
http://www.librarything.com/work/6849373

novel from a survivor → http://www.librarything.com/work/4298856/reviews

http://www.librarything.com/work/3213047
→ book – author coined the term “the stolen generation”

article discussing → http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA12/002/2010/en
and another → http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/good-news/australia-apologises-abuses-indigenous-20080213

Separate thing to look at...
→ Why countries make apologizes such as Australia to the aboriginal people and the us to Japanese-Americans
→ why are these reparations given? What is the purpose?

USE THESE SITES!!!!
United Nations
Library Thing
Rights Readers
Human Rights Watch
Amnesty International

DEVELOPING A RESEARCH QUESTIOIN
What led to the Australian Government taking these children away?
Was there conflict occurring?
What were their reasons to be doing this? Was it for the benefit of Australia as a whole?
Why would the children be "better off" being raised in a more modern day family instead of with their aboriginal parents?
Why does Australia consider aboriginal people to be "less" than the modern day people down under?
Have there been any direct conflicts involving aboriginal people and Australia?
How has the involvement of the Australian government affected the aboriginal people?
-> not allowing them to modernize them? are they the ones keeping them in this aboriginal state? if they were free from the meddling of the Ajavascript:void(0)ustralian government, would they eventually modernize themselves?
Did this affect that people of Australia's view of the Australian Government? Cause people to stop trusting them?
What is the significance of preserving the ways of life of aboriginal people?
Why does the government assist to keep their civilization alive but took away their children to modernize them? was it some kind of a cruel social experiment to see if aboriginal people could be like modern day Americans if they are raised that way?
Would it be beneficial for the Australian government to in a sense "exterminate" the aborignal people?