Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence - Softcover
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians. They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home. But Molly would not forget. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, 1,600 kilometres away, following the rabbitproof fence as their guide across the desert. This is the true story of that walk, told by Molly's daughter, Doris. It is also a prize-winning film. CEFR B1 Word count 10,600
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Doris Pilkington’s traditional name is Nugi Garimara. She was born in 1937 on Balfour Downs Station in the homeland of her Mardu ancestors. As a toddler she was removed by authorities from her home at the station and committed to Moore River Native Settlement, from which she escaped. She is the author of Home to Mother and Under the Wintamarra Tree.
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- PublisherUniversity of Queensland Pr (Australia)
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0702227099
- ISBN 13 9780702227097
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages136
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good +. WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINALBased 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.Series: UQP black Australian writers. xiv, 136 pages : map, facsims. ; 20 cm.#020124 Includes Glossary of Mardujara words (pages 134-135). Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction Aboriginal Australians -- Removal Child welfare - Child / parent separation Law enforcement - Police trackers Martuwangka people (A6) (WA SH51-10) History - Biographies - Indigenous Law enforcement - Police - Native police Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations Moore River Region (W.A.) -- Fiction Jigalong Region (W.A.) -- Fiction Moore River (SW WA SH50-14) Jigalong (WA East Pilbara SF51-13) Age tanning, ownership stamp on prelim Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Seller Inventory # 83304
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