Rabbit-Proof Fence : The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time
ISBN: 9780786887842 | 0786887842
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Hyperion Books
Pub. Date: 11/20/2002
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Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by whites and taken to settlements to be assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-winning author Doris Pilkington traces the captivating story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from her community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. At the settlement, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their a... MORE
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Map | p. x |
| The First Military Post | p. 1 |
| The Swan River Colony | p. 8 |
| The Decline of Aboriginal Society | p. 13 |
| From the Deserts They Came | p. 18 |
| Jigalong, 1907-1931 | p. 34 |
| The Journey South | p. 50 |
| The Moore River Native Settlement, 1931 | p. 62 |
| The Escape | p. 75 |
| What Happened t... MORE | p. 131 |
| Glossary | p. 134 |
| References | p. 136 |
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Doris Pilkington is also the author of Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter. Rabbit-Proof Fence, her second book, is now a major motion picture
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