A feature article to be included in the magazine I am creating for my Honours project will be about the Stolen Generations; in particular ways of re-finding and strengthening stolen identities. Recently the Australian Government apologised for the inhumane policies of previous governments and their implications upon Indigenous Australians. I am drawn towards issues relating to Indigenous cultures, especially the loss of cultures and knowledges that are an effect of colonisation and the Stolen Generations. On my recent trip to British Columbia, Canada, I gathered research material in relation to Canada’s First Nations People’s that will be useful as research material for the article. I strongly believe that cultures should enrich each other. Our soil has become dry, rather than rich, because of our refusal to see anything of value in (forcibly not-so-lost) Indigenous cultures. If I can lose and find myself, then it must be possible for a People’s to lose and find themselves too. What future policies can harbor (rather than destroy) this process?
