Stolen Generation Persuasive Essay Example

time at the home, Daniel was sexually abused by this man as well as another man working there (the mission he was staying at)…I said I’ll kill someone if I stay here much longer. Another example is of Bill Simon who says, “And we were beaten, flogged, molested, everything else but I couldn’t tell anybody because nobody was allowed to come and visit us in the homes. ” The forced removal of Indigenous children meant that many important cultural and family connections and ideas were lost, which not only affected individuals but the whole community. For example one of the Stolen Children stated on the ‘Bringing them Home Report’, “A lot of people say that they don’t know what exactly they are, whether they’re white or they’re black.

Where exactly they belong. ” The affects of the scheme also made many of the Stolen Children more likely to suffer from depression, have shorter life spans and end up on the wrong side of the law more often than the average Indigenous person. Bill Simon is a clear example of this, he states himself, “And I ended up mixing up there with the wrong crowd. I had me own drug little scheme running there, I used to sell a lot of drugs and get into fights.

In conclusion the events of the Stolen Generation had many effects on the whole indigenous community, with loss of culture, language and tradition. Many of the members of the Stolen Generation today still have mixed experiences of the events that occurred to them, for example Daniel Forrester says, “I wouldn’t like to see the Stolen Generation repeated again” while Marita AhChee

says, “And we had good days and bad days. But I can’t complain. The nuns were lovely to us”