You should definitely listen to ‘They took the children away’ by Archie Roach. It’s a stunning and heartbreaking song and it’s where the ‘And the children came back’ refrain comes from!
@@serenepeacefulrelaxingmusi3874 Thank you and I am a Mum too and I couldn't imagine what my Mum went through. She would tell us stories and I would end up sobbing thinking why. Luckily she was a trooper and raised very strong, educated and independent women and I use this to teach and share, not blame, but have a yarn xx 🖤💛❤️
My grandmother and her 4 siblings got a signal the government cars were coming so the 5 of them jumped out of the back window and went bush. So many didn’t make it back so very sad 😢🇦🇺✊
@@ThatSingerReactions You would love it! Very powerful, The song deals with the mistreatment of indigenous Australians and the nonrecognition of indigenous cultures in Australia, and was part of efforts to raise awareness of Australia's Stolen Generations - the forcible removal of Australian Aboriginal children from their families between 1909 and the 1970s. Midnight Oil recorded "The Dead Heart" for the handing back ceremony of Uluru (Ayers Rock) to its traditional Aboriginal owners. The band was then invited to tour through some of the most remote communities in the Australian outback with the Aboriginal group, the Warumpi Band, a tour that was known as the Blackfella/Whitefella tour.
@@ThatSingerReactions and the line just before it 'I'm Gurrumul, I'm Archie' is referring to Archie Roach, who wrote & performed 'Took the Children Away', which was the inspiration for this version. Back when Midnight Oil recorded The Dead Heart, they toured with the Warumpi Band, who have a bunch of excellent songs. There's a video of both bands performing the Warumpi's Balckfella/Whitefella and the Oils' Dead Heart during that tour. Definitely worth watching: th-cam.com/video/7N5ZsCGjUz0/w-d-xo.html
Yeah Senator Briggs. Nick this is a follow up to they took the children away by the incredible Archie Roach. Unsure if you ever noticed Dr G plays a right handed guitar with the left hand 🖤💛❤️ Dewayne does nicely backing up with the chorus. Briggs mentioned the walk off (from little things big things grow)
Close, but not quite.It's actually a reference to the Cummeragunja walk-off in 1939 by Yorta Yorta people, a bit closer to Briggs' heart as he's a Yorta Yorta man.
The rapper is Briggs. He's a legend in his own right. So the reference to "I'm Gurrumul, I'm Archie" is that the song is a reply to Archie Roach's "They Took The Children Away."
Its hard to appreciate this song fully if you don't know Australia's history. It is both heartbreaking and uplifting. It is a beautiful commemoration of a people that suffered and a celebration of them overcoming and commanding their place in the world. I share a land with my brothers even though i don't share blood. The spirit in this song is my hope for our shared future.
Omg yaaaaaasssss! Been hanging for you to do this song. I'm a teacher and show my class the actual film clip for this song every year. Check out Briggs, bad apples, great song with a deep, deep message.
Down here in Australia, we have yet to come to terms with our colonial history. We have the oldest continuous civilisation, which we should celebrate, but it's hard to celebrate until the truth of the colonial past is known. Indigenous people are statistically more likely to go to jail than University. The fix for these inequalities is massively complex, and people like Briggs and the notable indigenous people referred to in that song have succeeded in spite of the racism and inequalities baked into our country.
True respect for many well known indigenous names in the song.Awesome and big respect to this oldest living culture on the planet.a NAIDOC{ National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee Week} event on TripleJ
Briggs is a legend. His songs hit hard. January 26 is awesome. About how Australia Day needs to change the date. He has plenty of others too. He did a more humorous one with Tim Minchin a musical comedy guy when the big lockdown was on, about how much our federal government botched the whole response and how the Prime Minister decided to go to Hawaii on holiday while the biggest fires we've ever had were happening.
Glad you got around to this one. 👍 Briggs is in a group called "A.B. Original" that are worth a look. He was also from the Golden Era crew which included Hilltop Hoods... their 2013-2016 Cyphers are a fun ride. 😉
Briggs is a great artist, performer, author and screen writer. He has children's books, and was a writer on the TV animated show Disenchantment. He has solo songs and also part of a group A.B Original (aboriginal) As he and the other members are indigenous Australians. They released 1 self titled album and it has heavy US West Coast sounds, Speaks of the struggles of indigenous peoples of this land. Every song on it is 🔥. "2 Black 2 Strong" is my personal favourite from the album but theyre all so close.
I think "Like A Version" is always done in one take, and is done live to air over the radio on the Australian government-funded youth radio station Triple J. Triple J plays international and Australian bands and artists who usually write their own music, or cover other bands and artists who write their own music. Generally 'Indy' or independent artists... but including the singer-songwriters that make it huge like U2, Taylor Swift and Cardi B. Triple J likes to spend a lot of time on new and upcoming bands, and songs that cover issues of injustice and youth experiences. Triple J is notable for having the world's largest annual music countdown as voted by listeners, called The Hottest 100. The Hottest 100 has an international following, and tends to skew a little bit more mainstream than the daily Triple J playlist. However the annual Hottest 100 playlist is generally a great collection that captures the varying zeitgeists of Western music released over the last year. It covers most modern music genres.
Briggs is a brilliant artist, always with something to say, in a way that punches you in the face with it. In another Like A Version, he did a modernised, politicised, version of Dumb Things along with the original artist, Paul Kelly, and Dan Sultan. Strongly recommend that also.
Gurrumal (RIP) is a blind Indigenous Australian musician with an incredibly traditional sounding voice He learned to play the guitar upside down because he was left handed from a poor community Briggs is also an indigenous Australian who you may remember from your reaction from Golden Era 2013 Cypher with Hilltop hoods Vents K21 Funkoars ETC Very proud of our black history and our black future as I am a privileged enough to live in this country on land stolen from the First Nations people I am from Wollongong (traditionally known as Dharawal Country ~100km south of Sydney) Briggs is now the founder of music label Bad Apples with another favourite of mine Barkaa who raps about the injustice of the falsified and whitewashed “civilised” history of Australia
WOW......just to let you know, Dwayne Everett-Smith, the bloke who sings first is a proud Tasmanian Aboriginal man I see him at the Putalina Festival in Tassie and when ever we have balls or get togethers. Briggs is my cuz we are from the same Tribe, Yorta Yorta and of coarse Gurrumul is amazing, love this. I just found your channel and love that you are listening to Aboriginal singers. Deadly!
I absolutely adore your expressions on your face.. that song is about the Australian policy that less than 60 years ago I aboriginals were classified ab Fauna. . They took their children away.. they classified as people .
This song is a twist on They Took The Children Away by Uncle Archie Roach, they remade in the spirit of the children came back, making a point of say WE ARE STILL HERE! No matter what they did to our people we are still here and we are the dead hearts heartbeat, we're our ancestors wildest dreams, sadly not everyone who was stolen made it home and back to country and family, and so for them we are the living proof they couldn't break us ❤.
You have to do Archie Roach's Took the Children Away. This is the sequel to that song. The chorus "I'm Gurrumal, I'm Archie ... " that's referring the Archie Roach. Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter are trailblazers for First Nations recording artists.
One of my favourite songs. The song commemorates Indigenous Australians who have triumphed despite the Australian Government's oppressive policies such as cultural assimilation, ones that removed children from their families. It is a sequel to Archie Roach's They Took the Children Away which, "It's just me" mentioned. You may wish to watch the sequel (not a request to react), but it will provide more insight th-cam.com/video/IL_DBNkkcSE/w-d-xo.html
You must listen to the original song to understand the story behind this verse. Please give it a listen, you won’t regret it. This is such an important story to never be forgotten. ❤️💛🖤 Roger Knox’s version is my favourite: th-cam.com/video/BOn1UGn_5R4/w-d-xo.html
Patty mills the last shot reference is because he was the first ingenious Australian to enter the NBA. Briggs / senator Briggs is a champion 🏆 voice that needs to be heard
It’s a really important song about how YT Australian’s love our Indigenous brothers and sisters when they’re successful but the actually stole their children if they were mixed race usually due to rape. This was still happening 60 years ago! 🖤💛❤️
You really need to research Briggs he's done so much not just rap music like I said he's da bomb anyways check out Australian Aboriginal music artists and also learn about our history of invasion and things will make alot more sense our history has been hidden because white Australia is so ashamed they don't want it getting out for fear of them looking bad & racists we have soooo much great indigenous talent here in Oz y'all would love it get on ur computers or whatever & research research research our people even joined forces the black panthers back in the day & we still stand with our black brothers & sisters to this day, we won't stop until we rise above ✊🏽🖤💛❤️✊🏽 Always Was Always Will Be Aboriginal Land ❣️❣️❣️
This is by my cuz Briggs he's a rapper he's da bomb he's another truth teller just like our darling uncle Archie Roach ✊🏽🖤💛❤️✊🏽 u saying his name right it's Gurrumul✊🏽
You are thinking of a request that I tried to get you to do "the hunt by Briggs and gurmural" from my patrion but you couldn't get it so I changed to twitter and requested gurramul doing Blue King. This song gives you a history of indigenous people who have done extraordinary things most of them awarded Australian of the year. The original song is the greatest song ever took the children away by Archie roach.
Hey mate ! You should listen to “brown skin baby” by bob Randall, it’s about the indigenous Australian children and how they were taken from their families because of the white Australian policy. It’s a song about the stolen generation. You deffo should give it a listen !
the Original song was done by Archie Roach.Its about the Australian Government taking white looking Aboriginal children away from their parents .many where fostered and many never saw their parents for years.
not talking shit about you but for cultural reasons that i can't and won't talk about, don't say the name he passed, in my culture you are not allowed to say a name of a passed Aboriginal and you earned a sub btw from your raw emotion frfr... I love your words just want respect for my culture. ik you didn't know and that is why i love you
If you haven't seen it yet, you should check out the Official Video for this. I'm pretty sure they filmed in Briggs' hometown and it features appearances by Archie Roach, Paul Kelly and Adam Goodes. I love that he starts it off by celebrating some of the better-known Indigenous people like Cathy Freeman, Patty Mills, Lionel Rose, and Jimmy Little and then takes it back closer to his home and heart by talking about his family and friends who inspire him on the daily. th-cam.com/video/3-wMbFntrTo/w-d-xo.html
❤ Gurrumul isn’t singing because he is being honoured in the song! Every chorus the first word is ‘GURRUMUL’ then ‘ARCHIE’. You’ve done reactions to both these amazing singers!
Disclaimer!! Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this video may contain images and voices of people or person who have passed away. 🖤💛❤️
The australian government tried to remove all of the children born of mixed parentage, taking them to missions where they were forced to work hard. Many grew into jobs, but their wages were with-held in a paternalistic debacle. A class action was put through the courts a few years ago, the people won and were given a small amount of money,(shameful) because the gov't couldn't afford to pay up properly, they would have gone bankrupt. With those who were very light skinned, some were adopted out to white families. It was not very long ago, in the 1970's if I got it right, that the gov't finally stopped such an inhumane policy. One of my relatives had her children removed and died very young, from the heartbreak. Some of the kids ran away and made it home, a lot were stuck, not knowing their own family, their language or even where they were from. Land does not belong to individuals, the people belong to their home country, so that is even worse in a big way. The movie "Rabbit Proof fence" tells some of the story.
The Children came back is about how Aboriginal children were taken away from their parents and families and put into homes, like the residential schools that the Native American and Canadian children,
Gotta say I’m not a fan of this. The techno music. The rap. It takes away from the deep deep message that Archie Roach conveyed in the original. And this one ignores so many of the poetic verses Archie wrote. The only other version which comes close is Paul Kelly doing it live. Gave me goosebumps.
You should definitely listen to ‘They took the children away’ by Archie Roach. It’s a stunning and heartbreaking song and it’s where the ‘And the children came back’ refrain comes from!
Yes he did a couple of months before this!
OMG this song makes me cry because it happened to my Mum and it hits my heart every time I hear it... 💔😭🙏
💔💔💔
@@serenepeacefulrelaxingmusi3874 Thank you and I am a Mum too and I couldn't imagine what my Mum went through. She would tell us stories and I would end up sobbing thinking why. Luckily she was a trooper and raised very strong, educated and independent women and I use this to teach and share, not blame, but have a yarn xx 🖤💛❤️
Kellie I’m so sorry to hear that. Our country has a lot to answer for. Sending so much love for you and all your family 💕💕💕
My grandmother and her 4 siblings got a signal the government cars were coming so the 5 of them jumped out of the back window and went bush. So many didn’t make it back so very sad 😢🇦🇺✊
@@aileenbell2248 I’m so sorry xx
3:51 "I'm the dead heart's heartbeat" is a reference to Midnight Oil's "The Dead Heart", my absolute fav ♥
Oh wow didn't know that
@@ThatSingerReactions You would love it! Very powerful, The song deals with the mistreatment of indigenous Australians and the nonrecognition of indigenous cultures in Australia, and was part of efforts to raise awareness of Australia's Stolen Generations - the forcible removal of Australian Aboriginal children from their families between 1909 and the 1970s.
Midnight Oil recorded "The Dead Heart" for the handing back ceremony of Uluru (Ayers Rock) to its traditional Aboriginal owners. The band was then invited to tour through some of the most remote communities in the Australian outback with the Aboriginal group, the Warumpi Band, a tour that was known as the Blackfella/Whitefella tour.
@@ThatSingerReactions and the line just before it 'I'm Gurrumul, I'm Archie' is referring to Archie Roach, who wrote & performed 'Took the Children Away', which was the inspiration for this version. Back when Midnight Oil recorded The Dead Heart, they toured with the Warumpi Band, who have a bunch of excellent songs. There's a video of both bands performing the Warumpi's Balckfella/Whitefella and the Oils' Dead Heart during that tour. Definitely worth watching: th-cam.com/video/7N5ZsCGjUz0/w-d-xo.html
@@sanabas1 Thank you 🙏 that was brilliant ✊🏾
Yeah Senator Briggs. Nick this is a follow up to they took the children away by the incredible Archie Roach. Unsure if you ever noticed Dr G plays a right handed guitar with the left hand 🖤💛❤️ Dewayne does nicely backing up with the chorus. Briggs mentioned the walk off (from little things big things grow)
Yeah I heard about that. I'm blown away
Close, but not quite.It's actually a reference to the Cummeragunja walk-off in 1939 by Yorta Yorta people, a bit closer to Briggs' heart as he's a Yorta Yorta man.
The rapper is Briggs. He's a legend in his own right. So the reference to "I'm Gurrumul, I'm Archie" is that the song is a reply to Archie Roach's "They Took The Children Away."
Its hard to appreciate this song fully if you don't know Australia's history.
It is both heartbreaking and uplifting.
It is a beautiful commemoration of a people that suffered and a celebration of them overcoming and commanding their place in the world.
I share a land with my brothers even though i don't share blood. The spirit in this song is my hope for our shared future.
I’m so happy you did Gurrumul! Djarrimirri is an amazing song of his
Omg yaaaaaasssss! Been hanging for you to do this song. I'm a teacher and show my class the actual film clip for this song every year. Check out Briggs, bad apples, great song with a deep, deep message.
Down here in Australia, we have yet to come to terms with our colonial history. We have the oldest continuous civilisation, which we should celebrate, but it's hard to celebrate until the truth of the colonial past is known. Indigenous people are statistically more likely to go to jail than University. The fix for these inequalities is massively complex, and people like Briggs and the notable indigenous people referred to in that song have succeeded in spite of the racism and inequalities baked into our country.
True respect for many well known indigenous names in the song.Awesome and big respect to this oldest living culture on the planet.a NAIDOC{ National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee Week} event on TripleJ
Briggs is a legend. His songs hit hard. January 26 is awesome. About how Australia Day needs to change the date.
He has plenty of others too.
He did a more humorous one with Tim Minchin a musical comedy guy when the big lockdown was on, about how much our federal government botched the whole response and how the Prime Minister decided to go to Hawaii on holiday while the biggest fires we've ever had were happening.
Glad you got around to this one. 👍
Briggs is in a group called "A.B. Original" that are worth a look.
He was also from the Golden Era crew which included Hilltop Hoods... their 2013-2016 Cyphers are a fun ride. 😉
The cyphers are dope
Fuck yeah hopefully he does the golden era cyphers soon! I’ve just put a request in, wish me luck!
Briggs is a great artist, performer, author and screen writer. He has children's books, and was a writer on the TV animated show Disenchantment.
He has solo songs and also part of a group A.B Original (aboriginal) As he and the other members are indigenous Australians. They released 1 self titled album and it has heavy US West Coast sounds, Speaks of the struggles of indigenous peoples of this land. Every song on it is 🔥. "2 Black 2 Strong" is my personal favourite from the album but theyre all so close.
Briggs is everything, rapper, singer, writer, comedian, activist, future prime minister.
Hey Nick give Gurrumul and Jessica Mauboy singing Amazing Grace in their native aboriginal tongue. Magical
Beautiful
Wow gurrumul has some incredible duets
I think "Like A Version" is always done in one take, and is done live to air over the radio on the Australian government-funded youth radio station Triple J. Triple J plays international and Australian bands and artists who usually write their own music, or cover other bands and artists who write their own music. Generally 'Indy' or independent artists... but including the singer-songwriters that make it huge like U2, Taylor Swift and Cardi B. Triple J likes to spend a lot of time on new and upcoming bands, and songs that cover issues of injustice and youth experiences.
Triple J is notable for having the world's largest annual music countdown as voted by listeners, called The Hottest 100. The Hottest 100 has an international following, and tends to skew a little bit more mainstream than the daily Triple J playlist. However the annual Hottest 100 playlist is generally a great collection that captures the varying zeitgeists of Western music released over the last year. It covers most modern music genres.
Did you notice Gurrumul plays GUITAR UPSIDE DOWN....just flipped guitar over as he is left handed...LOVE IT
Briggs is a brilliant artist, always with something to say, in a way that punches you in the face with it. In another Like A Version, he did a modernised, politicised, version of Dumb Things along with the original artist, Paul Kelly, and Dan Sultan. Strongly recommend that also.
The "background singer" is Gurrumal sliding between frets on the guitar.
Thanks for spreading our talent in USA
Gurrumal (RIP) is a blind Indigenous Australian musician with an incredibly traditional sounding voice
He learned to play the guitar upside down because he was left handed from a poor community
Briggs is also an indigenous Australian who you may remember from your reaction from Golden Era 2013 Cypher with Hilltop hoods Vents K21 Funkoars ETC
Very proud of our black history and our black future as I am a privileged enough to live in this country on land stolen from the First Nations people
I am from Wollongong (traditionally known as Dharawal Country ~100km south of Sydney)
Briggs is now the founder of music label Bad Apples with another favourite of mine Barkaa who raps about the injustice of the falsified and whitewashed “civilised” history of Australia
I love to hear Aussie music from an Americans perspective. Love your channel, keep up the good work mate. 👍
WOW......just to let you know, Dwayne Everett-Smith, the bloke who sings first is a proud Tasmanian Aboriginal man I see him at the Putalina Festival in Tassie and when ever we have balls or get togethers. Briggs is my cuz we are from the same Tribe, Yorta Yorta and of coarse Gurrumul is amazing, love this. I just found your channel and love that you are listening to Aboriginal singers. Deadly!
geoffrey gurrumul yunupingu is the humming noise you hear the most beautiful noise you'll ever hear
I absolutely adore your expressions on your face.. that song is about the Australian policy that less than 60 years ago I aboriginals were classified ab Fauna. . They took their children away.. they classified as people .
They all collaborate with each other all black artists in Australia support each other
This song is a twist on They Took The Children Away by Uncle Archie Roach, they remade in the spirit of the children came back, making a point of say WE ARE STILL HERE! No matter what they did to our people we are still here and we are the dead hearts heartbeat, we're our ancestors wildest dreams, sadly not everyone who was stolen made it home and back to country and family, and so for them we are the living proof they couldn't break us ❤.
The children are still trying to come back..we will get there eventually ⚫️🟡🔴
Gyurrumuls wiyathal is hauntingly beautiful
BRO CHECK OUT GURRUMUL AND SALTWATER BAND .YOTHU YINDI. BAKER BOY COLOURED STONE CHOOKY DANCERS
I love Briggs
Beautiful. 🥰
You have to do Archie Roach's Took the Children Away. This is the sequel to that song. The chorus "I'm Gurrumal, I'm Archie ... " that's referring the Archie Roach. Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter are trailblazers for First Nations recording artists.
One of my favourite songs. The song commemorates Indigenous Australians who have triumphed despite the Australian Government's oppressive policies such as cultural assimilation, ones that removed children from their families. It is a sequel to Archie Roach's They Took the Children Away which, "It's just me" mentioned. You may wish to watch the sequel (not a request to react), but it will provide more insight th-cam.com/video/IL_DBNkkcSE/w-d-xo.html
Love this
Love Briggs. Has done some great tracks over the years. Well worth checking out Bad Apples
You must listen to the original song to understand the story behind this verse.
Please give it a listen, you won’t regret it. This is such an important story to never be forgotten. ❤️💛🖤
Roger Knox’s version is my favourite:
th-cam.com/video/BOn1UGn_5R4/w-d-xo.html
If you like Briggs also check out his group called A, B, Original (aboriginal) best name ever so smart
The play on words is brilliant 👏💕
Patty mills the last shot reference is because he was the first ingenious Australian to enter the NBA. Briggs / senator Briggs is a champion 🏆 voice that needs to be heard
I hadn’t heard this before, it made me tear up.
Love this!
It’s a really important song about how YT Australian’s love our Indigenous brothers and sisters when they’re successful but the actually stole their children if they were mixed race usually due to rape. This was still happening 60 years ago! 🖤💛❤️
Still happens today, now they call it 'child protection'
You really need to research Briggs he's done so much not just rap music like I said he's da bomb anyways check out Australian Aboriginal music artists and also learn about our history of invasion and things will make alot more sense our history has been hidden because white Australia is so ashamed they don't want it getting out for fear of them looking bad & racists we have soooo much great indigenous talent here in Oz y'all would love it get on ur computers or whatever & research research research our people even joined forces the black panthers back in the day & we still stand with our black brothers & sisters to this day, we won't stop until we rise above ✊🏽🖤💛❤️✊🏽 Always Was Always Will Be Aboriginal Land ❣️❣️❣️
This is by my cuz Briggs he's a rapper he's da bomb he's another truth teller just like our darling uncle Archie Roach ✊🏽🖤💛❤️✊🏽 u saying his name right it's Gurrumul✊🏽
He's singing about the history & the fight of our first nations people this song is an extension of uncle Archie's song took the children away xo
You are thinking of a request that I tried to get you to do "the hunt by Briggs and gurmural" from my patrion but you couldn't get it so I changed to twitter and requested gurramul doing Blue King. This song gives you a history of indigenous people who have done extraordinary things most of them awarded Australian of the year. The original song is the greatest song ever took the children away by Archie roach.
This was great
Hey mate ! You should listen to “brown skin baby” by bob Randall, it’s about the indigenous Australian children and how they were taken from their families because of the white Australian policy. It’s a song about the stolen generation. You deffo should give it a listen !
I sent you a request on pay pal for one of Briggs songs called bad apples definitely worth a listen 🤘🏻
the Original song was done by Archie Roach.Its about the Australian Government taking white looking Aboriginal children away from their parents .many where fostered and many never saw their parents for years.
not talking shit about you but for cultural reasons that i can't and won't talk about, don't say the name he passed, in my culture you are not allowed to say a name of a passed Aboriginal and you earned a sub btw from your raw emotion frfr... I love your words just want respect for my culture. ik you didn't know and that is why i love you
Gonna add to the list of people begging you to listen to Took the Children Away for the full story of this song.
If you haven't seen it yet, you should check out the Official Video for this. I'm pretty sure they filmed in Briggs' hometown and it features appearances by Archie Roach, Paul Kelly and Adam Goodes. I love that he starts it off by celebrating some of the better-known Indigenous people like Cathy Freeman, Patty Mills, Lionel Rose, and Jimmy Little and then takes it back closer to his home and heart by talking about his family and friends who inspire him on the daily.
th-cam.com/video/3-wMbFntrTo/w-d-xo.html
RIP Jimmy Little.
❤ Gurrumul isn’t singing because he is being honoured in the song! Every chorus the first word is ‘GURRUMUL’ then ‘ARCHIE’. You’ve done reactions to both these amazing singers!
Check out the original by Archie Roach that they mention at the end
I think you reacted to delta and gurrumul and two other performances,also the Matt and Alex was funny too as I know they are radio hosts on the J’s
Disclaimer!! Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this video may contain images and voices of people or person who have passed away. 🖤💛❤️
Dead Heart of Australia is Uluru
The australian government tried to remove all of the children born of mixed parentage, taking them to missions where they were forced to work hard. Many grew into jobs, but their wages were with-held in a paternalistic debacle. A class action was put through the courts a few years ago, the people won and were given a small amount of money,(shameful) because the gov't couldn't afford to pay up properly, they would have gone bankrupt. With those who were very light skinned, some were adopted out to white families. It was not very long ago, in the 1970's if I got it right, that the gov't finally stopped such an inhumane policy. One of my relatives had her children removed and died very young, from the heartbreak. Some of the kids ran away and made it home, a lot were stuck, not knowing their own family, their language or even where they were from. Land does not belong to individuals, the people belong to their home country, so that is even worse in a big way. The movie "Rabbit Proof fence" tells some of the story.
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Must listen to the Archie Roach original Took The Children Away
To all the stolen children,my ppl and still stolen in there mind's.
The Children came back is about how Aboriginal children were taken away from their parents and families and put into homes, like the residential schools that the Native American and Canadian children,
A beautiful reference to a horrible historical event in Australian history, The Stolen Generation.
Have no idea what the words mean - but you feel it... tell me you don't
Archie Roach - Took The Children Away (30th Anniversary Edition) [Official Video]
th-cam.com/video/EA52bupg-BY/w-d-xo.html
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Are you listening
Briggs - Bad Apples, do yourself a favour
PLZ LISTEN TO “STILL STANDING by KOBIE DEE” ❤️💛🖤
Children of the stolen generation! Thanks for acknowledging! Please watch the movie rabbit- rabbit proof fence!... it explains a little bit
Archie Roach Charcoal Lane.
Check out mainstream
Gotta say I’m not a fan of this. The techno music. The rap. It takes away from the deep deep message that Archie Roach conveyed in the original. And this one ignores so many of the poetic verses Archie wrote. The only other version which comes close is Paul Kelly doing it live. Gave me goosebumps.