Beyond Sorry

I attended the folm Beyond Sorry in this week's Oceania Film Festival series. It was more of a documentary of Zita Wallace. Her family is in an aboriginal tribe in Autralia but over 50 years ago under the Government, she was taken by white men from her family and forced into schools and made to learn to live in white society. This story is of her finally return back to her home land and regain her culture which was stripped from her.  I found it interesting that the parents of the kids taken were told that their kids were dead so in their culture they were not allowed to talk about dead children.  Zita is one a few that come back to their true home and family even though they are nothing like it used to be. It is a touching tale that is a very interesting story that I never knew took place. Come connections I got were that this story reminds me a lot of the assmiliation and oppression put on the Native Americans by the English and Spanish settlers of the old days. Often we sometimes overlook what bad things we have done in the past.