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In this chapter, Drew will discuss the 4-year program of engagement with Aboriginal communities in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Youth and Community Wellbeing program was initiated (and wholly funded) by the Traditional Owners of the region as a partnership to address youth suicide. The program embodies culturally determined ways of working based on authentic relationship building for the long term. He will explore the importance of everyday practices as well as the use of innovative approaches including photography, art and film to document the lived experiences of community in pursuit of social transformation and critical consciousness.
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The term ‘Stolen Generations’ was first used by historian, Peter Read in the publication, The Stolen Generations: the removal of Aboriginal Children in New South Whales 1883 to 1969. It was created to describe the generations of Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed from their parents to missions, government settlements and other institutions under policies of segregating and assimilating Aboriginal children via coercive social engineering. The term was little known outside of Aboriginal communities until the publication of the Bringing Them Home Report (1997) which cemented the term in the national consciousness, and subsequently, in the official Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples on 13 February 2008 by the then Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd (Kinnane, Personal Communication).
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This chapter was written with the permission and encouragement of Traditional Owners from the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. I thank them and pay my respects to them and all Traditional Owners past and present for the opportunity to share their story.
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Drew, N. (2014). Living and Learning Together: Principled Practice for Engagement and Social Transformation in the East Kimberley Region of Western Australia. In: Rinehart, R., Barbour, K., Pope, C. (eds) Ethnographic Worldviews. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6916-8_7
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