Pair work: Comprehension Questions Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence by María Chong https://padlet.com/mariachong2923/6d079ec4t39ealjl Maria C and Silvia H. en-us 2022-02-04 13:35:09 UTC 2022-02-04 13:41:49 UTC hello@padlet.com As the colonizers’ hold on Australia grows tighter and tighter, Aboriginal tribes all across the continent are forced to abandon their lands, their cultures, and even their languages, while the English dole out meager rations and supplies to the peoples they have decimated and remark blithely on the Aboriginals’ “gratitude” for these “small things.” mariachong2923 https://padlet.com/mariachong2923/6d079ec4t39ealjl/wish/2029428899 2022-02-04 13:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mariachong2923/6d079ec4t39ealjl/wish/2029428899 By the early 1900s, Western Australia is a prosperous settlement, though the original inhabitants have been marginalized and forced to adapt to the presence of white settlers mariachong2923 https://padlet.com/mariachong2923/6d079ec4t39ealjl/wish/2029434671 2022-02-04 13:40:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mariachong2923/6d079ec4t39ealjl/wish/2029434671 As the nomadic desert tribes of Western Australia seek a consistent food supply (their hunting grounds and arable lands having been occupied by whites), settlements like the Jigalong depot, which allow the Aboriginals to maintain a semi-nomadic lifestyle supplemented by government rations, begin to thrive as centers of Aboriginal life. mariachong2923 https://padlet.com/mariachong2923/6d079ec4t39ealjl/wish/2029435988 2022-02-04 13:41:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mariachong2923/6d079ec4t39ealjl/wish/2029435988