![]() ![]() ![]() nd the people who practiced it were pagans and devil worshippers," she said in a 2003 interview. "hile we were in the mission, again, we were continually told, you know, that the Aboriginal culture was evil. ![]() Garimara, too, was a member of the Stolen Generation and grew up in a mission believing she had been abandoned by her mother. She escaped with two other girls and walked more than 1,000 miles through the Australian wilderness. Garimara's novel Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence was based on the story of her mother, one of the so-called Stolen Generation, who was taken from her family and placed in a government settlement. Doris Pilkington Garimara, the aboriginal author who wrote of the forced separation of mixed-race aboriginal children from their families, died on April 10.The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. ![]()
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