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{{Act of Villainy|Image=SG absorption.jpg|perpetrator=[[Aboriginal Protection Boards]]|date=1869 - 1973|location=Australia|motive=To biologically absorb the Indigenous Australian race into white society.|crimes=Cultural [[genocide]]<br>Forced assimilation<br>[[Kidnapping]]<br>[[Blood quantum]]|name=Stolen Generations}}{{Quote|The Australian practice of Indigenous child removal involved both systematic racial discrimination and genocide as defined by international law. Yet it continued to be practiced as official policy long after being clearly prohibited by treaties to which Australia had voluntarily subscribed.|The ''Bringing them Home'' report.}}
{{Act of Villainy|image=Stolen_Generations.jpg|perpetrator=[[Aboriginal Protection Boards]]|date=1869 - 1973|location=Australia|motive=To biologically absorb the Indigenous Australian race into white society.|crimes=Cultural [[genocide]]<br>Forced assimilation<br>[[Kidnapping]]<br>[[Blood quantum]]|name=Stolen Generations}}{{Quote|The Australian practice of Indigenous child removal involved both systematic racial discrimination and genocide as defined by international law. Yet it continued to be practiced as official policy long after being clearly prohibited by treaties to which Australia had voluntarily subscribed.|The ''Bringing them Home'' report.}}


The '''Stolen Generations''' was a phenomenon in which Indigenous Australian children were removed from their families to be integrated into white society. The goal of the removal policy was to biologically absorb aboriginal children into the white population by removing individuals with mixed ancestry in an attempt to "breed the color" out of them.
The '''Stolen Generations''' was a phenomenon in which Indigenous Australian children were removed from their families to be integrated into white society. The goal of the removal policy was to biologically absorb aboriginal children into the white population by removing individuals with mixed ancestry in an attempt to "breed the color" out of them.