Taken Away Doris Pilkington

The Stolen Generation From 1869 to 1969, half-caste children were taken away from their families. In fact, the government thought that white people were higher than black and step by step, black people will be all dead because of the “process of natural selection”, but they were too many half-caste people and that’s why white people were afraid of it. In this work, we will talk about the representation of the stolen generation in the art. In 2002, the movie “Rabbit-Proof Fence” is an adaptation

Taken Away Introduction : This document is an excerpt from a novel « Following the Rabbit Poorf Fence » written by an aboriginal Australian Doris Pilkington and a film adapted from the novel in 2002 which deals with the Stolen Generation in Australia. The book and the film tell the true story of Molly Graig a young Australian Aboriginal girl, her sister and her cousin who are taken away from their family by Constable Riggs to be educated in a white school. Indeed they are part of the official