17-598: Jigalong is a remote Aboriginal community of approximately 333 people located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia . The traditional owners of the land are the Martu people . Jigalong is in the Pilbara region of Western Australia , approximately 165 kilometres (103 mi) east of the town of Newman in the Shire of East Pilbara local government area. The community is located in an Aboriginal Lands Trust reserve on
34-721: A student enrollment of around 120 children. The community has a medical centre run by the Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Services . Patients with serious illnesses and injuries are usually flown to Port Hedland —400 kilometres (250 mi) north west of Jigalong—by the Royal Flying Doctor Service . In 2019, the Army Aboriginal Community Assistance Program , a joint project between National Indigenous Australians Agency (formerly
51-734: Is her children's edition of Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence . In the four books, Caprice, a Stockman's Daughter , Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence , Home to Mother , and Under the Wintamarra Tree , Pilkington documented three generations of women in her family. In 1990, Pilkington's book Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter , the first of the trilogy, won the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards ' Unpublished Indigenous Writer – The David Unaipon Award. She
68-574: The Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia and travelled 2,414 km (1,500 miles) for nine weeks to return to their family. Pilkington was born at Balfour Downs Station , near the north Western Australian settlement of Jigalong . Her mother, Molly, named her Nugi Garimara, but she was called Doris by Molly's employer at the station, Mary Dunnet, who thought Nugi was "a stupid name". As her birth
85-574: The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet) and the Australian Army , commissioned the creation of a community-owned youth centre. They also facilitated the development of an outdoor barbecue setting, creek culvert, and public amenities block. The community hosts a range of stakeholder facilities, including a BHP construction shed established by the mining company, and a women's centre run by Ashburton Aboriginal Corporation . Jigalong
102-625: The Rabbit-Proof Fence is considered a powerful description of the abuses endured by the Stolen Generations. The book was made into an internationally successful film in 2002, directed by Phillip Noyce . Her follow-up book, Under the Wintamarra Tree , details her own life at Moore River and at the Roelands Native Mission and how she managed to escape by enrolling in a nursing school. Home to Mother
119-520: The West Australian Government". Doris Pilkington Garimara Doris Pilkington Garimara AM (born Nugi Garimara ; c. 1 July 1937 – 10 April 2014), also known as Doris Pilkington , was an Aboriginal Australian author. Garimara wrote Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996), a story about the stolen generation , and based on three Aboriginal girls, among them Pilkington's mother, Molly Craig , who escaped from
136-468: The areas, or relocated under various Government acts. The Aboriginal Communities Act 1979 allowed Aboriginal councils to make and enforce by-laws on their land. Originally it only applied to the Bidyadanga and Bardi communities, but was subsequently extended to others. In the 1980s and 1990s, effort was made to support indigenous communities. In 2014 and 2015 the support of some of
153-460: The communities comprise families with continuous links to country that extend before the European settlement of Australia . The governments of Australia and Western Australia have supported and funded these communities in a number of ways for over 40 years; prior to that Indigenous people were non citizens with no rights, forced to work for sustenance on stations as European settlers divided up
170-472: The communities was questioned in Western Australian and Australian political discussions. In 2015 rallies were held across Australia and the world to protest the withdrawal of government support of the communities. A group of Aboriginal protesters set up a camp on Heirisson Island , as "... a place of retreat for all Aboriginal persons who have been and will be forcibly removed by
187-495: The twentieth century, mixed-race Aboriginal children were often removed from their families and sent to distant camps, ostensibly for education and assimilation into European Australian life. Among them were sisters Molly Craig and Daisy of Jigalong, and their cousin Gracie. They were sent to the Moore River Native Settlement . Their escape from there, and the sisters' successful 1,600-kilometre (990 mi) trek back to Jigalong
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#1732779732465204-578: The western edge of the Little Sandy Desert . The traditional owners of the land are the Martu people , represented by the Western Desert Lands Aboriginal Corporation . The 2016 Australian census recorded the population of Jigalong as 333 people, of whom 87% were Aboriginal . The Jigalong Remote Community School provides education from kindergarten to Year 12 level, with six teachers for
221-494: Was appointed co-patron of Australia's State and Federal Sorry Day committee's Journey of Healing in 2002. In May 2008, she was awarded the $ 50,000 Red Ochre Award which is made to an indigenous artist for their outstanding, lifelong contribution to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts at home and abroad. Pilkington Garimara died of ovarian cancer at age 76 on 10 April 2014 in Perth, Western Australia . Pilkington Garimara
238-870: Was described in the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence , by Molly's daughter Doris Pilkington Garimara . She has written a trilogy about her family. In 2002, Garimara's book was adapted as a film, Rabbit-Proof Fence , directed by Phillip Noyce . The film's world premiere was held in Jigalong. It received a positive reception for its portrayal of the Stolen Generations , as such children were called. Aboriginal communities in Western Australia Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are communities for Aboriginal Australians within their ancestral country ;
255-561: Was established in 1907, as the location for a maintenance and rations store for workmen constructing the rabbit-proof fence . In the 1930s, it was used as a camel -breeding site, but this use was abandoned once the motor car superseded the camel as a mode of transport in the area. In 1947, the land was granted to the Apostolic Church , which used it as a Christian mission . It developed the Aboriginal community. The land
272-570: Was returned to the Australian government in 1969 as an Aboriginal reserve . It was granted to the Martu people in 1974. The community is covered by the registered Nyiyaparli Title claim (WC05/6). Jigalong Layout Plan No.2 was prepared in accordance with State Planning Policy 3.2 Aboriginal Settlements. It was endorsed by the community in 2005 and the Western Australian Planning Commission in 2006. In
289-489: Was unregistered, her birth date was recorded as 1 July 1937 by the Department of Native Affairs. She was taken from her mother to be raised at the Moore River mission when she was three and a half years old. Her younger sister, Annabelle, was also taken and was told she was an orphan, and over the years distanced herself from her Aboriginal heritage. Doris was reunited with her mother 21 years later. Garimara's Follow
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