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“I want to acknowledge the invasion of my forefathers and the war that ensued was a crime that continues to inflict harm,” she told the commission.
“I was never told while I was growing up that the Henty family were involved in an organised ethnic cleansing of First Nations peoples,” Ms Henty said.
Suzannah Henty gave evidence at the Yoorrook Justice Commission. Source: AAP Image/Supplied by Yoorrook Justice Commission Credit: SUPPLIED/PR IMAGE
She would like to see memorials to her forebears removed to museums or a park to fallen monuments, or ceremoniously destroyed.
“We have ancient and we also have contemporary Aboriginal people, with our culture and our past, the stories that we can tell and the gifts that we could give to all Victorians is amazing, people just don’t realise that,” she said.
‘Protection’ led to destruction
The missions however ushered in the beginning of a coercive control of Indigenous people, controlling their place of residence, movement, work contracts, money and children’s welfare.
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