Kelly, Molly

Kelly, Molly
▪ 2005
Molly Craig 
      Australian Aboriginal icon (b. c. 1917, Jigalong, W.Aus., Australia—d. Jan. 13, 2004, Jigalong), walked, with her younger sister and a cousin, some 1,600 km (1,000 mi) home from the settlement she had been taken to as a young teenager; her journey inspired the 2002 movie Rabbit-Proof Fence. From 1905 to 1971, Australia followed a policy of attempting to assimilate mixed-race Aboriginals into white society by removing mixed-race children from Aboriginal families. Kelly was taken, with her sister and cousin, in 1931. Knowing that her home was along the fence built to barricade rabbits from farmland that ran the length of Australia, she took the two younger girls and fled the settlement, arriving home nine weeks later. One of Kelly's two daughters, who was taken from her under the same policy, wrote the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996) about her mother's experience.

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