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Pulitzer Center Update August 21, 2017

Daniella Zalcman Takes Over @PulitzerCenter Instagram in Australia

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MIKE PINAY, Qu’Appelle Indian Residential School (1953-1963).“It was the worst 10 years of my life. I was away from my family from the age of six to 16. How do you learn about family? I didn’t know what love was. We weren’t even known by names back then. I was a number.” Image by Daniella Zalcman. Canada, 2015.
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For more than a century, many Western governments operated a network of Indian Residential Schools...

Harold Furber, a man from Alice Springs, Australia who was sent to Croker Island, about 1500 miles away from his family as a child. Image by Daniella Zalcman. Australia, 2017.
Harold Furber, a man from Alice Springs, Australia who was sent to Croker Island, about 1500 miles away from his family as a child. Image by Daniella Zalcman. Australia, 2017.

This month, Daniella Zalcman is in Australia's Northern Territory to interview members of the Stolen Generations—predominantly mixed race Aboriginal children who were taken from their families and sent to institutions where they were deprived of their Indigenous culture and identity. This week Zalcman will be posting her new work on the Pulitzer Center Instagram.

Signs of Your Identity (@signsofyouridentity) explores the legacy of coercive assimilation policies on Indigenous communities. 

Follow along at @PulitzerCenter.

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