Books by Doris Pilkington (2)


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Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence by Doris Pilkington EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Three mixed-race Australian girls, having been taken from their Aboriginal families, escape and return home on foot, without supplies or gear, while trying to evade recapture, in an account based on a true story.

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Rabbit-Proof Fence : The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time by Doris Pilkington EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
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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 ... continue