This film is incredibly intense. It is the story of three
little girls that live with an identity dilemma; they are half-caste aboriginal
girls that are captured by Mr. Neville, “chief protector” of the aborigine in
the State of Western Australia, to be culturalized.
What I think spoke to
me the most about this historical event, is the fact that the White settlers
truly believed that they where doing good for those “half-cast” children; that
it was a good thing to get rid of that half-cast “new race”. They would do this
by culturalizing half-cast children and incorporate them into the White culture
and eventually by the fourth generation, their heritage would be “White” and
they would become a “clean” race. The film shows the struggle that they go
through to go back home. The invasion of the aboriginal lands by White settlers
was a very traumatic experience for the natives.
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