Based on the book, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Garimara, this Australian film is a true story based on three mixed-race Aboriginal girls who were captured by Australian authorities and placed into re-education camp under the pretense that citizens of Aboriginal decent should be breed out of existence.
With guidance from an Aboriginal film class, Elizabeth rented the film and I found it very moving and desiring to know more.
Perhaps it also had a small bit to due with my history concentration with special highlighting in civil rights...
I found connections between the mistreatment of Aboriginals to Native Americans. From the period of 1830 until recently, (despite occupying Australia for at least forty thousand years) Aboriginals were separated from their families and placed into institutions or reserves that resulted in many not knowing their family origins. Similarly to the film, many were children and have become known as the " Lost Generation ".
Due to cruel treatment in history relationships between white Australians and Aboriginals today are strained and are painted with negative stereotypes.
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