Dujuan Hoosan is a boy who's trying to get the Government to stop Indigenous children being removed from their families, and address the high incarceration rates of Indigenous youth.
Key points:Dujuan addressed the Human Rights Council in 2019, where he spoke about the high incarceration rates of Indigenous youthFamily and cultural practices that go back thousands of years are fundamental aspects of life.
In My Blood It Runs is a documentary that was released last year that follows the life of Dujuan Hoosan, an Arrente and Garrwa boy. "I was born a little Aboriginal kid. That means that I have a memory of Aboriginal people; in my blood it runs," Dujuan said in the film.Dujuan speaks three languages and is a child-healer; a gift he proudly inherited from his grandfather, Ngangkere.
Dujuan was encouraged to learn traditional ways of living and the use of his native languages was enforced by his elders.
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