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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... looked through their eyes . By combining my imagination and the information from records of geographical and botanical explorations undertaken in the area during the early 1900s and later , I was able to build a clearer picture of the ...
... looked through their eyes . By combining my imagination and the information from records of geographical and botanical explorations undertaken in the area during the early 1900s and later , I was able to build a clearer picture of the ...
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... he had watched them gallop by in their scarlet jackets , during the fox hunt back home in England . On this desolate beach he looked at the two foxes in the large cages in front of him . He hoped to find good , fertile land and become 11.
... he had watched them gallop by in their scarlet jackets , during the fox hunt back home in England . On this desolate beach he looked at the two foxes in the large cages in front of him . He hoped to find good , fertile land and become 11.
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... looked promising . For breakfast they ate what was left over from supper with a refreshing drink of water . When they had finished they quickly removed the firewood that was still burning and covered it with wet sand and moved on ...
... looked promising . For breakfast they ate what was left over from supper with a refreshing drink of water . When they had finished they quickly removed the firewood that was still burning and covered it with wet sand and moved on ...
Contents
The First Military Post | 1 |
The Swan River Colony | 8 |
The Decline of Aboriginal Society | 13 |
Copyright | |
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