In 1826 Major Edmund Lockyer was sent to establish a military base with the aim to deter convicts, whalers and sealers and this first military outpost lasted five years. Kundilla, the leader of one Aboriginal camp with about sixty members, notices that the first British discoverers were not intent on causing harm. The Aboriginal men who lived in Nyungar, Western Australia, mistrusted the English since members of their families had been shot by white raiders and the English had kidnapped Aboriginal women and kept them as sexual slaves.
The first chapter of “The Rabbit-Proof Fence” begins with a historical description of when the English first arrived on the shores of Western Australia.
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