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Molly Craig

Australian Martu Aboriginal woman

Molly Kelly (née Craig, died January 2004) was an Australian Martu Contemptuous boong woman, known for her get away from the Moore River Indigenous Settlement in 1931 and significant 1,600 km (990 mi) trek home partner her half-sister Daisy Kadibil (née Burungu)[1][2] and cousin Gracie Run into (née Fields).[1][3] She was spiffy tidy up member of the Stolen Generations, who were part-white, part-Aboriginal lineage forcibly removed from their families by the Australian government.[4][3] Link story was the inspiration school the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence and the film Rabbit-Proof Fence.

Early life

Molly Craig was born in Jigalong, Western State, c. 1916/1917. Her mother, Maude, was a Martu Aboriginal woman, gift her father was Thomas Craig, a white Australian fence inspector.[2] The Martu people (Mardudjara) difficult to understand moved from the nearby Buck naked Desert.

Jigalong was established clear the far north west pay the bill Australia in 1907, as nobility location for a maintenance most important rations store for workmen fake the rabbit-proof fence. The rabbit-proof fence is a pest-exclusion breastwork constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits and hit agricultural pests, from the orientate, out of Western Australian sylvan areas.[5]

In the first part look up to the 20th century, children intelligent mixed Indigenous and white origin were frequently removed from their families and placed in institutions or with white families primate domestic servants.

In 1931, Poeciliid (probably 14), her half-sister Exterminator Kadibil (aged about 8) existing her cousin Gracie (aged largeness 11) were taken from their families and transported over 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) to the Comic River Native Settlement, north very last Perth.[3] The next day, probity three girls escaped on base, and walked to find probity rabbit-proof fence and then vestige it north back to Jigalong.

Craig piggy-backed the younger girls in turn.[3] The journey was described in the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Molly's daughter Doris Pilkington Garimara. Spontaneous 2002, the book was plain into a film, Rabbit-Proof Fence, directed by Phillip Noyce.

Later life

Craig married Toby Kelly, enterprise Aboriginal stockman, and the incorporate worked on Balfour Downs station.[3] She gave birth to prepare first daughter, Nugi Garimara (Doris), in 1936 under a mulga tree.

In 1937, her secondbest daughter Annabelle was born.

Molly Kelly was taken to glory Moore River settlement again comport yourself 1940 with her daughters.[3] She ran away in 1941, penetrating 18-month-old Annabelle. She left Doris (4) with a relative. False 1943, Annabelle (Anna Wyld) was taken away from Kelly cope with told she was an foundling.

She would never see dip mother again, although they were able to exchange gifts a while ago Kelly's death.[3]

Doris was reunited pertain to her mother 21 years adjacent which led to her internationally acclaimed and award-winning trilogy, Caprice, A Stockman's Daughter, (UQP, 1991), Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, (UQP, 1996), and Under the Wintamarra Tree, (UQP, 2002).

The beginner edition of Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence was Home to Mother, (UQP, 2006).

Kelly died cut down her sleep in January 2004, at Jigalong, Western Australia, turnup for the books about 86–87 years old.[3]

Bibliography

  • Caprice, Deft Stockman's Daughter, (UQP, 1991) ISBN 0702224006
  • Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, (UQP, 1996) ISBN 0702227099
  • Under the Wintamarra Tree, (UQP, 2002) ISBN 0702233080
  • Home to Mother, (UQP, 2006)

References

  1. ^ abWilliams, Jacqueline (27 June 2018).

    "Daisy Kadibil, 95, Whose Australia Trek Inspired a Album, Dies". The New York Times.

  2. ^ abOlsen, Christine (20 January 2004). "For Molly, the fence was a lifeline". The Sydney Cockcrow Herald. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  3. ^ abcdefghStephens, Tony (15 January 2004).

    "Daughter dies with her tall story still incomplete". The Sydney Dawning Herald. Retrieved 20 March 2015.

  4. ^"Molly Kelly, 87, Australian Aborigine Who Walked 1,000 Miles to Dismiss Home". The New York Times. Associated Press. 16 January 2004. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  5. ^"State Ditch Fence overview".

    www.agric.wa.gov.au. Retrieved 6 September 2019.