follow the rabbit proof fence doris pilkington

Through Molly, Gracie, and Daisy’s story of internment and escape, Pilkington demonstrates the ways in which the legacy of colonialism in Australia is one of loss and dispossession-not just of land or material goods, but of spirit, agency, and destiny.

This pattern continued unabated up to and well beyond the 1930s, when the main action of Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence takes place-a time when “ half-caste” (that is, mixed-race white and Aboriginal) children were forcibly removed from their families, confined to internment camps, and cut off from their native roots, deepening their loss of cultural heritage. In the early chapters of Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, Doris Pilkington, writing imaginatively about the early days of English colonization of Australia, explores how English settlers systematically stripped Aboriginal Australians of their land, property, and culture from the moment they set foot on Australia’s shores. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.The history of the indigenous population of Australia is marked by loss and dispossession.

Under Western Australia's removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families and transported halfway across the state. The film 'Rabbit-Proof Fence' is based on a 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. 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. The three girls - aged 8, 11 and 14 - managed to escape from the settlement's repressive conditions and brutal treatment. Here Aboriginal children were instructed in the ways of white society and forbidden to speak their native tongue.

Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal 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. 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.

Follow the rabbit proof fence doris pilkington