Doris pilkington garimara biography of barack obama

Aboriginal Australian author

Doris Pilkington GarimaraAM (born Nugi Garimara; c. 1 July – 10 April ), also known as Doris Pilkington, was an AboriginalAustralian author.

Garimara wrote Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (), a story about the stolen generation, and based on three Aboriginal girls, among them Pilkington's mother, Molly Craig, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia and travelled 2,&#;km (1, miles) for nine weeks to return to their family.

Biography

Pilkington was born at Balfour Downs Station, near the north Western Australian settlement of Jigalong.^[2] Her mother, Molly, named her Nugi Garimara, but she was called Doris by Molly's employer at the station, Mary Dunnet, who thought Nugi was "a stupid name".

As her birth was unregistered, her birth date was recorded as 1 July by the Department of Native Affairs.^[3] She was taken from her mother to be raised at the Moore River mis