Residential schools
The aim of this system was to remove children from their homes.
What is a Residential school?
The TRC was created as part of this 2007 agreement.
What is the Indian residential schools agreement (IRSSA)?
Call to action #80 lead to this national holiday.
what is National Day of Truth and Reconciliation or Orange Shirt day?
This country, also forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families in what became known as the Stolen Generations.
What is Australia?
The color of the shirt worn by Phyllis Webstad.
What is the color orange?
The TRC collected this many survivors statements.
What is 6700?
Calls to action 1-42 that are focused on child welfare and education.
What is legacy group calls?
Over 100,000 Indigenous children in Australia were taken and placed into these types of institutions.
What are church-run institutions, orphanages, and foster care?
Children in these schools were punished for speaking this.
What is their Indigenous language?
This was established to preserve the records of the TRC.
What is the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR)?
Calls to action 43-94 that are focused on equity for aboriginal people in the legal system, training for public servants, church apologizes, education for reconciliation.
What is the legacy group?
These were three types of abuse many Indigenous children faced in Australian institutions.
What are physical, emotional, and mental abuse?
This phrase describes the long lasting trauma passed down through generations.
What is intergenerational trauma?
This is the number of calls issued by the TRC.
What is 94?
Call to Action #43 asked the government to adopt this international declaration.
What is United Nations declaration on the rights to indigenous peoples (UNDRIP)?
Australia responded to the Stolen Generations with a formal apology, compensation, and this type of support for Indigenous healing.
What is the creation of a foundation for healing projects?