![]() Tracked by Native Police and search planes, they hid in terror, surviving on bush tucker, desperate to return to the world they knew. Barefoot, without provisions or maps, they set out to find the rabbit-proof fence, knowing it passed near their home in the north. : University of Queensland Press, 1996 Includes bibliographical references (p. ![]() The three girls - aged 8, 11 and 14 - managed to escape from the settlement's repressive conditions and brutal treatment. Rabbit-proof fence by Pilkington, Doris, 1937-Publication date 2002 Topics Pilkington, Doris, 1937-, Aboriginal Australians, Children, Aboriginal Australian. Here Aboriginal children were instructed in the ways of white society and forbidden to speak their native tongue. original families at Jigalong on the edge of the Little Sandy Desert, and transported halfway across the state to the Native Settlement at Moore River, north of Perth. On the surface it is a story of survival against the land itself, the people along the way, and the knowledge shared from her father (re: the rabbit proof fence is the path to home) and her. ![]() For each book that is written, there are hundreds of others that are carved on the hearts of the stolen generations and those left behind. ![]() Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Ab. 4/5: This is one of those stories that need to be told - often. The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. ![]()
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