STOLEN GENERATIONS: Separation of Aboriginal children from their families in Western Australia

WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL –

Catalogue produced to accompany an exhibition dedicated to the stolen generations; Western Australian policy and treatment of Aboriginal children from colonial times through to the present day; child removal and institutionalisation ; white Australia and assimilation policy ; missions – Beagle Bay, Forrest River; Swan Native and half Caste Missions;segregation and later desegregation in schools; foundation and life on Moore River and Carrolup; Sister Kate’s Children’s Home; Tardun Children’s Mission and St Joseph’s farm.

• 63 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. #090526

• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Cultural heritage – Protection – Museums and keeping places – Collections and acquisitions
  • Socioeconomic conditions
  • Religions – Christianity – Missions
  • Government policy – Assimilation
  • Child welfare – Child / parent separation – Stolen generations
  • Government policy – Self determination – 1993-2004
  • Child welfare
  • Education – Policy and administration
  • Government policy – State and territory – Western Australia
  • Moore River (SW WA SH50-14)
  • Forrest River (WA East Kimberley SD52-09, SD52-10, SD52-14)
  • Beagle Bay (WA West Kimberley SE51-02)
  • Western Australia (WA)
  • Carrolup (SW WA SI50-07)

  Subject:

  • Western Australian Museum — Catalogs
  • Stolen generations (Australia)
  • Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Child welfare — Exhibitions
  • Aboriginal Australians — Government policy — Western Australia — History — Exhibitions
  • Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Social conditions — Exhibitions
  • Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Treatment — Exhibitions
  • Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Removal