5/24/2023 0 Comments Doris pilkington garimara books![]() ![]() The Superintendent of the depot was also the Protector of Aborigines for the area. In 1907, Jigalong, in the Pilbara region, was established as a government depot and base for the men who maintained the rabbit-proof fence. No provision was made for the traditional landowners which meant that the Aboriginal people in those areas became dispossessed of their traditional lands, and therefore their social structures. The first three chapters of Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence sketch a picture of the early days of white settlement in Western Australia in which a military outpost was established at Albany and the Swan River Colony was founded at Fremantle.īy the 1900’s the boundaries of white settlement were extended and government policies were introduced that allowed large areas of land to be claimed by farmers and pastoralists. ![]() (*There is some discrepancy in the girl’s ages as their births were not registered.) ![]() In 1931, Molly, aged about 15 years of age and her younger sisters Gracie and Daisy, about 12 and 11 years,* were removed from their remote Aboriginal community at Jigalong in the north-west of Western Australia and taken to the Native Settlement at Moore River, north of Perth. Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington/Nugi Garimara is the true story of the author’s mother, Molly. ![]()
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