![]() ![]() This pattern continued unabated up to and well beyond the 1930s, when the main action of Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence takes place-a time when “ half-caste” (that is, mixed-race white and Aboriginal) children were forcibly removed from their families, confined to internment camps, and cut off from their native roots, deepening their loss of cultural heritage. ![]() In the early chapters of Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, Doris Pilkington, writing imaginatively about the early days of English colonization of Australia, explores how English settlers systematically stripped Aboriginal Australians of their land, property, and culture from the moment they set foot on Australia’s shores. The history of the indigenous population of Australia is marked by loss and dispossession. ![]()
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