PHOTO: Dancers from Coonamble Public School learned a dance to mark the occasion.
Elders, family and members of the community gathered at the Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC) on Monday 27 May, the start of National Reconciliation Week, to acknowledge and reflect on the trauma that Stolen Generation survivors suffered and overcame.
The occasion began with a minute of silence to remember the members of the Indigenous community that were taken from their families as young children by government agencies and church missions between 1910 and 1970.
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