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Hold onto your hair, mates,
not even The SHADOW knows!
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The Stolen Generation:
Australia’s Dark and Tragic Past.
Australia’s Dark and Tragic Past.
Imagine
your child playing in your front yard. As you watch through the window, a van
of policemen pulls up. They take your screaming child away. You never see your
child again.
And it was all legal.
Children who were very dark skinned were
allowed to stay with their parents, causing many indigenous people to dye their
children’s skin dark using the sap of the milkwood tree. However, if a child
looked as if he had any white ancestry, he was taken away. Some, if they looked
white enough, were adopted by white families. READ MORE:
As an Aussie myself (now
living in the US), I was shocked and disgusted by the actions by my then
government. I always knew that Aboriginals, like the American Indians, got a
raw deal when the white settlers arrived and took over their land.
This is one reason I wrote
Dreamtime
Man. I wanted to show how the
native Australian people struggled to survive, and how far they have eventually
come in claiming their place, their cultural dignity, and their rights.
Final illo and verses from
'Dreamtime Man.'
'Dreamtime Man.'
Much
time has slid past–many moons full and new,
Since the people of Dreamtime claimed old Uluru.
Since the people of Dreamtime claimed old Uluru.
Tribes now are proud of their
history and lore,
Some, willing and eager to claim even MORE.
Some, willing and eager to claim even MORE.
Today when they gather ‘round Corroboree fire,
Men dance old Legends while the Spirits
inspire.
"Dreamtime" still leads them
where white men can't follow,
Where the spirits of old offer hopes for tomorrow.
The stars here are the Southern Cross--seen only
south of the equator
south of the equator
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Margot Finke
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