![]() ![]() Her legacy is one of cultural understanding and transformational knowledge through literature. ![]() In highlighting the injustices faced by the Stolen Generations through truth-telling and the beauty of her language, Doris Pilkington was an outstanding leader and positive role model. It was adapted into a highly successful film which earned Doris international recognition. It follows the experience of her mother being taken away from her own family as a child, ten years before Doris was taken, in turn, from her. Published by the University of Queensland Press in 1996, Doris’s celebrated book, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, is the middle book of her trilogy. Her profoundly Western Australian stories inspired a new generation of Indigenous writers, influencing the ways in which Western Australians view themselves through a complex history. She later used that experience to write of injustice and the strength of connection to country. Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn. Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. She tells her own story in Under the Wintamarra Tree (2003), of her premature birth, under the tree of the book’s title on Balfour Downs Station, a pastoral lease and cattle station located about 132 kilometres north-east of Newman in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Doris Pilkington Garimara AM Hall of Fameĭoris Pilkington Garimara AM (1937-2014) was a Martu woman taken from her home at the age of four to be placed in the Moore River Native Settlement. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. ![]()
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