Genocide in the Wildflower State
Friday November 6, 6:00 PM
The Confluence (750 9 Avenue SE, Calgary)
Burnswest Theatre
Documentary Feature | 57 Min
Language: English | Subtitles: English
Genre: Indigenous Rights, Human Rights
Post-Film discussion at 7:05 PM
This is a documentary about a violent, state-run system of eugenics, racial absorption, and social assimilation in Twentieth Century, Western Australia. For the more than six decades between 1905 and 1972, thousands of mixed-race Aboriginal children in Western Australia were forcibly removed from their families. Systematically organized by the State, overwhelmingly supported by West Australian society, generation after generation, for over sixty years, the State worked to destroy Aboriginal families, culture, and language, for the purpose of securing white, settler dominance.
Director: Franko Rijavec
Country: Australia
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