摘要
在澳大利亚东南部的弗莫林汉，福利院的官员从那铁皮屋里带走了当时只有三岁的阿奇·罗奇。他们对阿奇的母亲说是要护送他到一个野餐会去。阿奇的阿姨试图用枪吓走那些人，可是那杆枪是没上子弹的。小阿奇就这样被收容在墨尔本的一家孤儿院里，别人告诉他说他的家人已在一场火灾中丧生。他的看护人极力要把他的卷发梳成直发，结果弄到梳齿断裂。白种人以为如此一来就可以把土著居民的孩子变得和他们大致一样，却不过是白费心机。这样并不奏效，而遭罪的当然不仅仅是这些梳子。
When the welfare officers came to take three-year-old Archie Roach from his tinlined house in Framlingham in southeastern Australia, they told his mother they were eseorting him to a picnic. His aunt tried to scare them off with a gun, but it wasn＇t loaded. Institutionalized in a Melbourne orphanage, young Archie was told his family had died in a fire. His minders tried to force his hair straight, breaking comb teeth in his frizzy curls. It was a vain attempt by whites to make an Aboriginal child more like them. It didn＇t work, and the combs weren＇t the only casualties.
