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. 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.
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