Doris Pilkington Garimara · 1996 · survival

Doris Pilkington Garimara's 1996 book, the true story of her mother Molly and two other Aboriginal girls who in 1931, seized from their families under Australia's assimilation policy, escaped a settlement and walked some 1,500 miles home across the outback, following the rabbit-proof fence north. A searing account of the Stolen Generations and an astonishing feat of endurance by children.

1. 1
   Jigalong

   Molly, Daisy and Gracie are torn from their families at Jigalong under a government policy of removing mixed-race Aboriginal children.

2. 2
   Moore River

   They are taken more than a thousand miles south to the Moore River Native Settlement, a grim camp meant to remake them.

3. 3
   The Rabbit-Proof Fence

   Within a day the girls escape and strike out into the bush, finding the rabbit-proof fence that runs the length of the state and using it as their guide.

4. 4
   Jigalong (return)

   Following the fence north through desert and station country for nine weeks, half-starved and pursued, Molly and Daisy at last reach home.