Apology to Aborigines

1. The English came into contact with the Aboriginals in 1788. While the English were colonizing, the westners tooks land from the aboriginals and forced them out of their homes.In many cases they were either beat or killed.

2. There was mass confusion when the british began settling in the city of sydney because there was no goverenment to run the town.They simply figured it was in there power to take land from the natives and foroce them to live somewhere else. In this time period the indigenous people began getting sick. They got diseases such as: small pox, measles and influenza. The Europeans brought non-native animals that destroyed the land.

3.The stolen generation movement began in 1909 which was run under the APB (Aboriginal Protection Board). The idea was to put all non full blooded aboriginals under white culture. The children were thought as slaves and servents in the future to work for the Britains, when in reality they were forced to be removed because aboriginals were thought as unfit parents.

4. The effects of what the Europeans did not only affected the people who were living during that time period, but also their children. The children began to learn about there history and where they came from. The children then became furious about some of the stories that were being told.Due to the frustration of their past and the abbuse that came with, many children led violent lives, which led to an early death.

5. To this day, many people are still currently trying to find missing children. Not just for the parents sake, these children have been through so much. Many of these children have hit rock bottom in adulthood because they are physically unstable. It's also hard to find the children because they have been mixed in with other races and it's hard to identify the children.

6. As an apology I would say to the prime minister, That the aboriginial culture has been around for thousands of years. Not only has the culture been around but so have the people. They know more about the land and the agriculture then the average australian culture. Another reason for the Stolen Generation was to eliminate the aboriginals because they were seen as inferior by the settlers. Anyone in australia will say that this is a horrible time period in history. By holding off a well deserved apology such as this makes the situation worse. All the aboriginals want/need is an apology that they deserve.