Indigenous Civil Rights Movement

What is the Stolen Generation?

• A generation of people who moved out of the country
• A generation that survived on stealing from Europeans
• A generation of Indigenous Australians that were taken and raised by white people
• A generation of babies that disappeared mysteriously, likely stolen and raised by kangaroos and dingos

What year did the Stolen Generation begin in Australia?

• 1914

• 1869

• 1911

• Trick question - the Stolen Generation was the result of various policies put forward by various governments at different times. There is no one, single date.

What was the actual policy name of the Stolen Generation that was given in Victoria?

• The Aboriginal Reconciliation Bill

• The Aboriginal Protection Act

• The Indigenous Procreation Initiative

• The Aboriginal Prosperity Initiative

Why did the Australian State Governments want to enact the Aboriginal Protection Act?

• To protect British settlers from Aboriginal violence.

• To 'breed out' the black colour of the Indigenous Peoples and eradicate the aboriginal 'race'.

• To deny aboriginal people the rights and freedoms of white Australians.

• Because the Federal Government had not been formed yet and the states wanted total control.

What is the term for giving up your own minority culture and adopting the culture of the majority?

• Acculturation
• Assimilation
• Primogeniture
• Heredity

What happened to Aboriginal people on reserves and missions?

• They were taught to reject their European ways of life

• They were injected with smallpox

• They were taught to reject their Aboriginality and had to convert to Christianity

• They were taught to speak English and how to fight

Why did the government take mixed race Aboriginal children from their families?

• Government thought these children could be absorbed into the wider white population.

• Government thought these children could be better used as servants.

• Government thought their parents could not look after them

• Government thought these children could be absorbed into the wider black population.

The term terra nullius means

• conquered land belonging to an empire
• land belonging to no one
• land disputed by neighbouring countries
• land owned and managed by traditional inhabitants

The Day of Mourning 1938 was important because...

• It showed white people that the Indigenous People were a force to be reckoned with.

• It marked the beginning of the civil rights movement

• It was the first official protest

• B and C

In 1948, which document was created to explain what rights were given to all humans?

• Declaration of Independence

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

• International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights