Peter Gabriel - Ngankarrparni (Sky Blue) - The Rabbit-Proof Fence
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Peter Gabriel - Ngankarrparni (Sky Blue) - The Rabbit-Proof Fence
Rabbit-Proof Fence is the true story of Molly Craig, who, in 1931, at 14, was taken from her mother in Jigalong, a depot on one of the fences that were being constructed across the continent in an attempt to keep marauding rabbits from destroying the western farmlands. Along with her half-sister Daisy, 8, and cousin Gracie Fields, she was taken to the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia.
"I would not hesitate to separate any half-caste from its aboriginal mother, no matter how frantic momentary grief might be at the time," wrote one "protector". "They soon forget their offspring," He maintained it was just like removing a pup from a bitch. The film would show the terrified children sprinting across stony wasteland in a futile attempt to escape the police, distraught mothers wailing in the dust, and an aged granny battering her head with a stone in impotent frustration. It would show the girls in a cage as they are transported by train to their new home and a culture of flogging and solitary confinement for those who failed to appreciate what the white man was doing for them.
One day, when the coming rainstorm would hide their tracks, Molly, Daisy and Gracie set off for home, traipsing across the desert, scavenging from farmers and aborigine hunters, cooking what little meat they could obtain over an open fire, close to collapse with hunger, heat and exhaustion. For long parts of the journey the girls followed the rabbit-proof fence.
After walking for nine weeks, Molly and Daisy were reunited with their mother (though Gracie was recaptured). They disappeared into the desert, just the sort of uplifting ending the film needed. They are still living in the Jigalong area, 600 miles north-east of Perth - two days on a bus, followed by a couple of hours in a truck.
Their story was retold in the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, written by Mollys daughter, Doris Pilkington, and published by the University of Queensland Press in 1996. It might never have attracted anything more than local attention had it not been for Christine Olsen, who forced herself on Pilkington, with much the same persistence she would later apply to Noyce.
You have to watch the movie "Rabbit-Proof Fence". A true story about two little girls, who escape from the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, Western Australia, to return to their Aboriginal families, after being placed there in 1931. The film follows the Aboriginal girls as they walk for nine weeks along 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of the Australian rabbit-proof fence to return to their community at Jigalong, while being pursued by white law enforcement authorities and an Aboriginal tracker. The film illustrates the official child removal policy that existed in Australia between approximately 1905 and 1967. Its victims now are called the "Stolen Generations".
Life has it's bends and twists. Despite being born 3.000 kms from the main Moore River settlement across the other side of Australia, by chance I have ended up living in the region.
Blow me down , recently only discovered that my grand father and grand uncle were sent to the boarding school here at the same time of this sad story.
Ages ago I scavenged and made good use of a heap of old wire fencing from the local dump around my garden, now only recently to be told that it was originally part of the old rabbit fence.
Kinda feel a bit spooky leaning up against it I do.
Everytime I visited Australia, I received nothing but kindness from The Aboriginals, the real people of Australia.
it’s all fufu starving people
This song is so beautiful!
And when it comes to the film! I am speechless!
The courage of those little girls was astounding!
Love this film, the soundtrack and learning about "The Lost Generation." I saw this film about 10 times so far. Thank you for the great video description.
Stolen more than lost.....
Wow, 10 times! I only watched it 5 times and one of them was this evening! 11/22/23
@@ernestwilson5591 It would probably be 50 times by now but I no longer have Optimum, only stinky xFinity (puke), Netflix, Firestick and a bunch of other useless channels. Bummer!! Last I read Daisy Kadibil, the youngest sister of Molly, and cousin Gracie, died at age 95 in 2018. But in my heart, their story lives on forever.
I will remember this movie as long as i live
Very well done. . .captures the emotion of the story. . .very moving. . .
Thank you.
Love this song & great movie also
I can relate to the lyrics so much
*Extremely Emotional Movie and therefore also it's Music. What the British did to the Aboriginal People in Australia should never... EVER be allowed to happen again.*
They even featured a part of this song on CSI!
الاصدقاء موضوع جميل ❤❤
A great film with a great song....these kids could be Navajo, or Cree.... Choctaw or Cherokee...... it is a very old story....
Even tho we love owe native America brothers and sister, we are native Australia this is owe story..
1:55 to 2:55
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I WANT THE ENDING
Where can I download this song?
Right here on You Tube.