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Stolen Children, Invisible Mothers and Unspeakable Stories: The Experiences of Non-Aboriginal Adoptive and Foster Mothers of Aboriginal Children
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Cuthbert, Denise |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | One of the measures of the cultural, if not political, success of sustained Aboriginal activism on the issue of the forced removal of children from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, leading up to the instigation of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's inquiry into the issue and the widely disseminated publication of its findings in 1997, is that it now appears nearly impossible to tell the story of indigenous child removal in terms other than those provided by the powerful Aboriginalised tropes and narrative modes that have come to shape both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal understandings of issue. I do not wish to take issue with the long-overdue emergence of Aboriginal voices and an Aboriginal discourse on this issue. However, as the older ways of understanding the meaning of removing indigenous children from their communities ‘for their own good’ (Link-Up & Wilson 1997) have lost their provenance and are replaced by Aboriginal stories with the critically revised meanings o... |
| Starting Page | 139 |
| Ending Page | 154 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/10350330120018283 |
| Volume Number | 11 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/resources/pdfs/105.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330120018283 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
