On the small aboriginal village of Ngukurr, I noticed a strange fresco on the wall. I questioned an old man of the signification of this fresco. He told me it is a memory to the Stolen Generation. I had already heard the story of it, but I asked him of what it represented for his community. He said that many people he knew were children of the Stolen Generation. From 1869 to 1969, the australian's white government decided to remove (or kidnap) the aboriginal children to placce them on white occidental's families of Australia, to make of them good citizens and australians. The government wanted to destroy the aboriginal culture. For many times this comportment was not recognize by the australian government but in 1997, he decided to make public excuses. But a big part of the aboriginal community is today in gap, and many are misfit, because of the settlers who wanted to make of them the lowest form of scum. The elder spoke to me of the first aboriginal children of the Stolen Generation, Bruce Trevorrow, who was the first one to claim compensations.
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