Rabbit-Proof Fence

In Australia during the 19th century and up until 1970, it was government policy to remove aboriginal children from their families and raise them as white children in orphanges where they would be trained to work as domestic laborers. In 1931 young Molly (Sampi) decided that she wanted to go home to her mother so she walked away from the camp with her two younger cousins, Gracie (Monaghan) and Daisy (Sansbury). Traveling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, the girls began their long trek home. Following the "Rabbit-Proof Fence," a fence that was built across the nation to keep out an over-population of rabbits, the girls began their long journey all the while with the government right behind them. Based on the book "Molly's Daughter" by Doris Pilkington Garimara, whose Auint Daisy was one of the three children who made this remarkable journey. (Tricia Littrell)