Moore River Native Settlement - Cultural and Journalistic Coverage

Cultural and Journalistic Coverage

Several plays, films and books have been produced which tell harrowing tales of life in the settlement:

• Aboriginal poet and playwright Jack Davis' play Kullark where an Aboriginal man named Thomas Yorlah is forcibly moved to the settlement and makes numerous attempts to escape. Along with this, in his play No Sugar, the entire Aboriginal population in Northam is sent to the settlement. Davis lived in the settlement in the 1920s.

• The book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington and its film adaptation (Rabbit-Proof Fence) tell the story of three mixed race Aboriginal girls who ran away from the settlement in 1931.

• The Book Broken Circles by Anna Haebich provides a detailed description of stolen generation experience.