Stolen Generations

The Stolen Generations were children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were forcibly removed from their families by Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, acting under acts of their respective parliaments. The policy specifically targeted children classified under the term half-caste, with removals concentrated between roughly 1905 and 1967, though the forced taking of mixed-race children continued in some places into the 1970s. As an institutionalized system of racial separation and assimilation carried out through government and church authority, the Stolen Generations stand as one of the starkest examples of state-organized stratification and discrimination directed at an indigenous population. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/