Rabbit-Proof Fence : The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time
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Book Description
Following 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.
About the Author
Doris Pilkington is also the author of Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter. Rabbit-Proof Fence, her second book, is now a major motion picture from Miramax Films, directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Kenneth Branagh.
Rabbit-Proof Fence : The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time,Doris Pilkington,Miramax Books,0786887842,Fiction,Historical,Aborigines, Australian,Removal,Moore River Region (W.A.),Racially mixed children,Cultural assimilation
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