story of three indigenous Australian girls Molly, Gracie and Daisy, who were forcibly taken from their home in Jigalong in 1931. Under the mandate of the Aborigines Protection Act, the young girls were sent to the Moore river settlement, where their aboriginality was to “simply, be bred out”. As the central characters embark on a physical journey they undergo an “awakening”. Initially, in the trauma of being torn from everything and everyone they know, the girls receive a first hand education in the…
Words 2093 - Pages 9