Annotation Task: Stolen Generations, Assimilation Policy Impact

This annotated bibliography focuses on the Stolen Generations in Australia, providing a summary and evaluation of a YouTube video from Common Ground highlighting the meaning of the Stolen Generations and defining it as the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families by state and federal agencies between 1910 and 1970 under the assimilation policy. The annotation assesses the video's reliability and usefulness for research, emphasizing its unique focus on the impact of assimilation, and includes additional references from Common Ground and the Australian Human Rights Commission to support the analysis and provide further context on the historical and human rights aspects of the Stolen Generations.

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Topic: The Stolen Generations
in Australia
Identify the type of source (book, journal article, website,
webpage, oral source, documentary film, etc): YouTube
Indicate how you located the source (via a database such as
Onesearch, Proquest, Informit, J-Stor or other means):
YouTube
Citation (in APA style)
youtube.com. (2019). Telling Our Stories – Our Stolen Generations (Florence Onus). Retrieved
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzExWBCuuyg
Summary
The You Tube video highlighted on the what the stolen generations mean and it defined the
stolen generations that are removed state government and the Australian federal agencies from
the families of the Torres Islander People and the Aboriginals. This act was carried out in the
year 1910 to 1970 through a policy called the assimilation policy. The policy of assimilation
made the forcible removal of the first children of Australia as legal.
Evaluation of the reliability and credibility of the source.
This You Tube video was featured on the website of an organization in Australia called the
“Common ground”. The video emphasized on the impact of assimilation on the Aboriginal and
the Torres Island families that resided in Australia. It also highlighted that the removed children
used to receive the very low amount of education and the video also contained a report published
by the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee Inquiry in the year 2006.
An Assessment of the usefulness of the source for your research towards Assessment Task
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This You Tube video emphasized and highlighted on the aspects that were highly ignored by the
other sources. The impact of the assimilation was explicitly show cased in the video. This video
is helpful in providing proper emphasis on the stolen generations.

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Additional references: (include references for any sources that you cite for supporting
information in your annotations).
Commonground.org.au. (2019). The Stolen Generations. Retrieved from
https://www.commonground.org.au/learn/the-stolen-generations
Bth.humanrights.gov.au. (2019). Bringing Them Home | Australian Human Rights Commission.
Retrieved from https://bth.humanrights.gov.au/
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