Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All TimeFollowing an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-wining author Doris Pilkington traces the story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. There, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their heritage, and taught to be culturally white. After regular stays in solitary confinement, the three girls planned and executed a daring escape from the grim camp. |
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... kilometres and ran from the Southern Ocean near the port of Esper- ance in the south to the tropical Eighty Mile Beach north of Port Hedland . The government of the day proposed that a properly constructed and a well - maintained fence ...
... kilometres and ran from the Southern Ocean near the port of Esper- ance in the south to the tropical Eighty Mile Beach north of Port Hedland . The government of the day proposed that a properly constructed and a well - maintained fence ...
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... kilometres west of Mogumber . Al- though the births of these children were not registered they were still noted by station owners in their journals so it was easy for the authorities to locate them . Also , movement between stations ...
... kilometres west of Mogumber . Al- though the births of these children were not registered they were still noted by station owners in their journals so it was easy for the authorities to locate them . Also , movement between stations ...
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... kilometres , and a further 30 kilometres in the dry , rough country between Murra Munda and Walgun stations before he finally found her . The search was so tiring that he decided to spend the night at Walgun Station . His passengers ...
... kilometres , and a further 30 kilometres in the dry , rough country between Murra Munda and Walgun stations before he finally found her . The search was so tiring that he decided to spend the night at Walgun Station . His passengers ...
Contents
The First Military Post | 1 |
The Swan River Colony | 8 |
The Decline of Aboriginal Society | 13 |
Copyright | |
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