Follow the rabbit-proof fence / Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimara).
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TextSeries: UQP black Australian writersPublication details: St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2001Edition: New edDescription: xiv, 136 p. : map, facsims. ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780702233555 (pbk.); 0702233552 (pbk.); 0786887842; 0702232815; 0702227099Other title: Rabbit-proof fenceSubject(s): Gariamara, Nugi, 1937- | Cross, Gracie | Kadibil, Daisy | Kelly, Molly | Craig, Molly, died 2004 | Cross, Gracie | Kadibil, Daisy | Moore River Native Settlement (W.A.) | Aboriginal Australians -- Removal -- Fiction | Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction | Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia | Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations | Law enforcement - Police - Native police | Law enforcement - Police trackers | Child welfare - Child / parent separation | History - Biographies - Indigenous | Martuwangka people (A6) (WA SH51-10) | Moore River Region (W.A.) -- Fiction | Jigalong Region (W.A.) -- Fiction | Moore River Region (W.A.) | Jigalong Region (W.A.) | Jigalong (WA East Pilbara SF51-13) | Moore River (SW WA SH50-14)Genre/Form: Australian fiction | Australian fiction DDC classification: A823.3 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.
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Author's Aboriginal name is Nugi Garimara.
Film tie-in.
Previous ed.: 1996.
Bibliography : p. 136.
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.
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