Doris grew up believing that her mother had given her away, and the truth emerged in snippets as she grew into adulthood. Doris was left behind with her aunt Daisy-who had, just like her sister Molly, been sent back to the camp as an adult. Molly joined her daughters at the camp, but after just a year there she absconded from the camp once again, with Doris’s younger sister Anabelle in tow. They were sent-just as their mother had been-to the Moore River Native Settlement in order to be “properly” educated and kept isolated from their indigenous family.
As a young girl, Doris and her baby sister Anabelle were removed from their home while their mother, Molly, was in the hospital recovering from an appendectomy. Doris Pilkington Garimara was born in 1937 at the Balfour Downs Station near Jigalong, her family’s ancestral home.
0 kommentar(er)
