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Aboriginal Woman; Lockhart River, Cape York, Queensland, Australia Aboriginal Australian Woman, Australia Aboriginal People, Aboriginal Face Paint, Aboriginal Australian People, Australian Aboriginal Women, Aboriginal Portrait, Australia Indigenous, Aboriginal Women, Aboriginal Australia

During the period of 1905-1969, the Australian government authorities and police were given the power to transfer Aboriginal children to foster care, forcibly removing them from their families. The children who were taken were assimilated to Anglo-Australian culture. It is estimated that about 100,000 children in total, or just about every third Aboriginal person at that time, was forcibly removed from their families.

Aboriginal stockman, Canning stock route, Western Australia by Axel Poignant - 1942 Albert Einstein, Aboriginal Photography, Canning Stock, Indigenous Australia, Indigenous History, Aboriginal Australia, Australian Aboriginals, Aboriginal Man, Australian People

Though not born in Australia, Axel Poignant's work is largely about the 'Outback', its flora and fauna and the traditions of Australian and Indigenous identity. Poignant was born in Yorkshire in 1906 to a Swedish father and English mother, and ...

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