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Author Pilkington, Doris, 1937-2014.

Title Follow the rabbit-proof fence / Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimara)
Published St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1996

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 W'PONDS  827.03 P6395 A6/F  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 136 pages : map, facsimiles ; 20 cm
Series UQP black Australian writers
UQP Black Australian writers.
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
Children, Aboriginal Australian
Jigalong Region (W.A.) Biography
Moore River Region (W.A.) Biography
Pilkington, Doris Family
Aboriginal Australians Biography
Children, Aboriginal Australian
Jigalong Region (W.A.) Biography
Moore River Region (W.A.) Biography
Pilkington, Doris Family
Notes Author's Aboriginal name is Nugi Garimara
Includes Glossary of Mardujara words (pages 134-135)
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 136
Subject Craig, Molly.
Cross, Gracie
Pilkington, Doris, 1937-2014.
Kadibil, Daisy
Pilkington, Doris, 1937-2014 -- Family.
Moore River Native Settlement (W.A.) -- History.
Moore River Native Settlement (W.A.)
Aboriginal Australians -- Biography.
Aboriginal Australians -- Child welfare
Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction.
Aboriginal Australians -- Relocation -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Removal
Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Aboriginal Australians.
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography.
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Government policy -- Australia -- Western Australia.
Children, Aboriginal Australian.
Stolen generations (Australia)
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography. 117 118 128 129 134 135 137
SUBJECT Jigalong Mission (W.A.)
Jigalong Mission (Western Australia)
Jigalong Region (W.A) -- Social life and customs
Jigalong Region (W.A.)
Jigalong Region (W.A.) -- Biography
Jigalong Region (W.A.) -- Fiction
Jigalong Region (W.A.) -- Social life and customs
Moore River Region (W.A.) -- Biography
Moore River Region (W.A.) -- Fiction
Genre/Form Fiction.
Biographies.
LC no. 96144585
ISBN 0702227099
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