At the settlement, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language,forced to abandon their aboriginal heritage, and taught to be culturally white. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-winning author Doris Pilkington traces the captivating story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from her community in Southwestern Australia and take to the Moore River Native Settlement. Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by whites and takes to settlements to be assimilated.
Three mixed-race Australian girls, having been taken from their Aboriginal families, escape and return home on foot, without supplies or gear, while trying to evade recapture, in an account based on a true story. Rabbit-proof fence / Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimara) Book Bib ID
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