Rabbit Proof Fence

Author : Doris Pilkington
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702252050
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence written by Doris Pilkington and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary story of courage and faith is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the repressive life of Moore River Native Settlement, following along the rabbit-proof fence back to their homelands. Assimilationist policy dictated that these girls be taken from their kin and their homes in order to be made white. Settlement life was unbearable with its chains and padlocks, barred windows, hard cold beds, and horrible food. Solitary confinement was doled out as regular punishment. The girls were not even allowed to speak their language. Of all the journeys made since white people set foot on Australian soil, the journey made by these girls born of Aboriginal mothers and white fathers speaks something to everyone.

Author : Doris Pilkington Garimara
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780194791441
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 3: Rabbit-Proof Fence written by Doris Pilkington Garimara and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word count 10,600

Author : Chantel Acevedo
Publisher : Europa Editions UK
ISBN 13 : 1787700674
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Distant Marvels written by Chantel Acevedo and published by Europa Editions UK. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a lifetime told in the eye of a hurricane. Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money—she was a favorite in the cigar factory where she worked as a lettora—and for love, spinning gossamer tales out of her own past for the benefit of friends and family. But now, like a modern-day Scheherazade, she will be asked to tell a story so that eight women can keep both hope and themselves alive. Cuba, 1963. Hurricane Flora, one of the deadliest hurricanes in recorded history, is bearing down on the island. Seven women have been evacuated from their homes and herded into the former governor's mansion, where they are watched over by another woman, a young soldier of Castro's new Cuba named Ofelia. Outside the storm is raging and the floodwaters are rising. In a single room on the top floor of the governor's mansion, Maria Sirena begins to tell the incredible story of her childhood during Cuba's Third War of Independence; of her father Augustin, a ferocious rebel; of her mother, Lulu, an astonishing woman who fought, loved, dreamed, and suffered as fiercely as her husband. Stories, however, have a way of taking on a life of their own, and, swept up by her story's momentum, Maria Sirena will reveal more about herself than she or anyone ever expected. Chantel Acevedo's The Distant Marvels has the epic scope of a contemporary Gone with the Wind and a faith in the power of storytelling equal to Martel's Life of Pi. It is a family saga, a love story, a stunning historical account of the struggle against oppressors, and a long tender plea for forgiveness. The Distant Marvels is, finally, a life-affirming novel about love that lasts a lifetime and the very art of storytelling itself.

Author : Doris Pilkington
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702233081
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Wintamarra Tree written by Doris Pilkington and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doris Pilkington Garimara was born on traditional birthing ground under the wintamarra tree. Her life in the Mardu camp was disrupted when as a three-year-old she was taken by the authorities to live within the confines of Moore River Native Settlement. Her remarkable story follows on from the courageous journey of her mother Molly Craig, made legendary in the recently released film, 'Rabbit-Proof Fence'.

Author : Terry Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780859051897
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder on the Rabbit Proof Fence written by Terry Walker and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the murder of Louis J. Carron also known as Leslie George Brown by Snowy Rowles (real name John Thomas Smith) using a method described by the writer Arthur Upfield who was in the process of writing his novel The Sands of Windee. Details the police investigation, the evidence, the trial and its aftermath. Snowy Rowles was hanged.

Author : Larissa Behrendt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780868199108
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabbit-proof Fence written by Larissa Behrendt and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Australian Screen Classic is about the movie "Rabbit-Proof Fence" based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. The 2002 film, written by Christine Olsen and directed by Phillip Noyce, tells the story of Doris Pilkingtons mother, the then fourteen-year-old Molly Craig, her sister Daisy, aged eight, and cousin Gracie, aged eleven, who were all forcibly removed from their families at Jigalong in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in 1931. Taken to the Moore River Native Settlement, a mission on the western Australian coast some 2000 kilometres from home, they were to be trained as domestic servants. Desperately home sick, Molly, Daisy and Gracie escaped, and following the rabbit-proof fence, they walked thousands of kilometres across desert back home, all the while being stalked by the authorities. In this honest and frank account Eualeyai and Kamillaroi woman, academic and award-winning author Larissa Behrendt finds much about this story that resonates: the need and desire to find ones home, ones sense of place, ones sense of self. This is undoubtedly a universal quest but for Aboriginal people taken from their families, as these children were, that search for home, that need to feel complete, is all the more powerful. (

Author : Laleen Jayamanne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253214751
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward Cinema and Its Double written by Laleen Jayamanne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jayamanne brings together her discussions of Australian films, Sri Lankan films, European art films, silent film comedy, contemporary American films and her own films.

Author : Forrest Carter
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826316948
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Education of Little Tree written by Forrest Carter and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001-08-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Education of Little Tree has been embedded in controversy since the revelation that the autobiographical story told by Forrest Carter was a complete fabrication. The touching novel, which has entranced readers since it was first published in 1976, has since raised questions, many unanswered, about how this quaint and engaging tale of a young, orphaned boy could have been written by a man whose life was so overtly rooted in hatred. How can this story, now discovered to be fictitious, fill our hearts with so much emotion as we champion Little Tree’s childhood lessons and future successes? The Education of Little Tree tells with poignant grace the story of a boy who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. “Little Tree,” as his grandparents call him, is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains and taught to respect nature in the Cherokee Way—taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course. Little Tree also learns the often callous ways of white businessmen, sharecroppers, Christians, and politicians. Each vignette, whether frightening, funny, heartwarming, or sad, teaches our protagonist about life, love, nature, work, friendship, and family. A classic of its era and an enduring book for all ages, The Education of Little Tree continues to share important lessons. Little Tree’s story allows us to reflect on the past and look toward the future. It offers us an opportunity to ask ourselves what we have learned and where it will take us.

Author : Alan Duff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781776950737
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once Were Warriors written by Alan Duff and published by . This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear vision- 'We believed in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and staked everything on it.' Ground-breaking. Original. Heart-rending. Most talked about book in New Zealand, ever. Adapted into a blockbuster movie. Still in print three decades later.

Author : Christine Olsen
Publisher : Gardners Books
ISBN 13 : 9780868196558
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabbit-proof Fence written by Christine Olsen and published by Gardners Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1931 the authorities seized 14-year-old Molly Craig from her desert home in Jigalong, western Australia, with her younger sister Daisy and cousin Gracie. Official policy decreed that the three girls be taken to the Moore River Native Settlement, where they were to be trained as domestic servants. Their trauma was intensified by Moore River's harsh regime and Molly soon decided it was time to go home, to their mothers. And the only way home was to walk. The true story of the girls' 1600 kilometre journey back to Jigalong is now a major film directed by Phillip Noyce. (3 male, 6 female).