THE STOLEN GENERATION

Impact and effects of colonization on Aboriginal People under the Stolen Generation

Impact and effects of colonization on Aboriginal People under the Stolen Generation

Introduction

In the times today, it must be understood and comprehended that regardless of the changes and the challenges that have been felt and experienced, it is rather wise and evident that understanding and analyzing the degree with which people are now investing towards the origin, role and the duty with which the Aboriginal People in Australia have borne and experienced over the passage of time.

For this paper, our focus and concentration revolves around understanding the impression and the positive and negative aspects experienced by the Aboriginal people, which specifically belonged to the Stolen Generation. The paper shall focus regarding the key issues and the problems and the corresponding developments and issues that rose at the time of colonization (Marten, 2002, p. 229).

Also, with this paper, we would be able to provide for the creation and the establishment of analyzing the ways of the Aboriginal people and the intervention of the plan entitled 'The Stolen Generation', rendering us with the necessary information and understanding that would make way for a successful examination of the end results and the influence of the program upon the people living in Australia.

Colonization and Aboriginal Population

Colonization is basically a process through which area and geographical demarcations are being established over the passage of time. The ideology here is to assign coordinating governments and authorities, which not only would symbolize and make way for individual development and also connected with the central power of ruling, reporting errors and problems and excerpting solutions for progress and constructive results.

While a certain degree of autonomy is being authorized to these governments, the final decision making authority rests and is associated with the Queen, which would then provide for the decision to take place over the passage of time. In the case of the aboriginals, however, the case in point and the scenario that has been promulgated clearly narrate and describe problems that would not be addressed nor resolved.

With the advent of colonization, government officials had a chance and a strong stance on their part that they had the chance of removing aboriginals, relocating and positioning them into another place or locality where they would be used as slaves and further intended and utilized to render their services to the country (Evans, 2007, pp.10).

Considering that the access to land and its control was now in the hands of the authorities, it became evident that regardless of the changes that has been intended, it practically called for halting and interfering with the routine life of the aboriginals, disintegrating them from their roots and leaving behind nothing but destruction.

In addition to this, with colonization installed into the system, the aboriginals were exposed to disease, from which these people were unable to secure themselves. Illnesses such as smallpox, measles and influenza not only called them to survive, but also caused endless deaths and casualties over the passage of ...