Rabbit-Proof Fence

Type

Book

Authors

Doris Pilkington

ISBN 10

0786887842

ISBN 13

9780786887842

Tags

Performing Arts, Australian, Women, Screenwriting, Biographical, Movie, Video Game Adaptations, Contemporary

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. - from Amzon

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