Rabbit-proof fence

author: Sampi, Everlyn
Three Aboriginal girls, forcibly removed from their families in 1931 in accordance with government policy, and placed in camps where they were to be trained to work as domestics for white families, escape their captors and set out on a 1,500-mile journey across Australia, determined to return to their homes. Based on a true story.
year: 2003
call number/section: 994.04, 1000
subjects: pilkington, doris, 1937-, family, drama, fiction, stolen generations (australia), drama, aboriginal australians, government relations, runaway children, australia, video recordings for the hearing impaired
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