![]() ![]() There are references to those in the Dreamtime and sprinklings of native language - but only scatterings because the stolen generation had their words - their voices - taken away from them. The children were hauled off to the native settlements where they were trained to be domestic servants and stockmen, not doctors and authors and smooth-talking politicians. The language in the book is clunky and there is little plot or character development according to Western standards. ![]() Beyond the story itself, is the knowledge the same ripping away from family and culture and belonging carried on another generation as the author was taken away from her mother (Molly Craig) the Molly of the story and not reunited until 21 years later. ![]() On the surface it is a story of survival against the land itself, the people along the way, and the knowledge shared from her father (re: the rabbit proof fence is the path to home) and her mother's family (how to survive in the bush.) Scratch a little deeper and it is the story about colonialism, white makes right, and the loss of land, identity, family, language and culture. For each book that is written, there are hundreds of others that are carved on the hearts of the stolen generations and those left behind. ![]() This is one of those stories that need to be told - often. ![]()
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