Her mother Molly named her Nugi Garimara, but Molly’s employer Mary Dunnet insisted on calling her Doris. ‘These adults who conditioned and indoctrinated the Aboriginal children in their care were confident that the children would lose all memories of their actual families and thus their Aboriginal heritage.’ĭoris Pilkington was born at Balfour Downs Station, near the north Western Australian settlement of Jigalong in 1937. Like ‘Rabbit-Proof Fence’, it illustrates how young lives can be damaged, even with the best of (misguided) intentions. ‘Under the Wintamarra Tree’ is the story of Doris Pilkington, the daughter of Molly whose heroic trek was the subject of the book ‘Rabbit-Proof Fence’, made into a film by Phillip Noyce in 2002. In May 2008 she was awarded the $50,000 Red Ochre Award.‘When the sun was high and the heat uncomfortable, the Mardudjara women returned to camp, their wirnis filled with wamula. She was appointed co-patron of Australia’s State and Federal Sorry Day committee’s Journey of Healing in 2002. In 1990 Pilkington’s book Caprice: A Stockman’s Daughter the first of the trilogy, won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, Unpublished Indigenous Writer – The David Unaipon Award. In the four books, Caprice, a Stockman’s Daughter, Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence, Home to Mother, and Under the Wintamarra Tree, Pilkington documented three generations of women in her family. Home to Mother is her children’s edition of Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence.
Her follow-up book, Under the Wintamarra Tree, details her own escape from Moore River. The book was made into an internationally successful film in 2002, directed by Phillip Noyce. Doris Pilkington Garimara AM (born Nugi Garimara), also known as Doris Pilkington, she was best known for her 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, a story of three Aboriginal girls, among them Pilkington’s mother, Molly Craig, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia and travelled for nine weeks to return to their family.
0 kommentar(er)
