Description |
xiv, 136 pages : map, facsimiles ; 20 cm |
Series |
UQP black Australian writers |
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UQP Black Australian writers.
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Summary |
Book based on the true account of three young Aboriginal girls who, under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, 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; Molly, the eldest of the three, led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home, barefoot - without provisions or maps, escaping from the settlement's repressive conditions and brutal treatment; they set out to find the rabbit-proof fence, knowing it passed near their home in the north; tracked by Native Police and search planes, they hid in terror, desperate to return to the world they knew |
Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians Biography |
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Children, Aboriginal Australian |
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Jigalong Region (W.A.) Biography |
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Moore River Region (W.A.) Biography |
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Pilkington, Doris Family |
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Aboriginal Australians Biography |
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Children, Aboriginal Australian |
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Jigalong Region (W.A.) Biography |
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Moore River Region (W.A.) Biography |
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Pilkington, Doris Family |
Notes |
Author's Aboriginal name is Nugi Garimara |
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Includes Glossary of Mardujara words (pages 134-135) |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 136 |
Subject |
Craig, Molly.
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Cross, Gracie
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Pilkington, Doris, 1937-2014.
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Kadibil, Daisy
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Pilkington, Doris, 1937-2014 -- Family.
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Moore River Native Settlement (W.A.) -- History.
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Moore River Native Settlement (W.A.)
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Aboriginal Australians -- Biography.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Child welfare
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Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Relocation -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Removal
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Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography.
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Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Government policy -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Children, Aboriginal Australian.
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Stolen generations (Australia)
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Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography. 117 118 128 129 134 135 137
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SUBJECT |
Jigalong Mission (W.A.)
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Jigalong Mission (Western Australia)
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Jigalong Region (W.A) -- Social life and customs
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Jigalong Region (W.A.)
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Jigalong Region (W.A.) -- Biography
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Jigalong Region (W.A.) -- Fiction
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Jigalong Region (W.A.) -- Social life and customs
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Moore River Region (W.A.) -- Biography
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Moore River Region (W.A.) -- Fiction
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Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Biographies.
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LC no. |
96144585 |
ISBN |
0702227099 |