Jacko claims: "Anyone who knows Australia knows that kangaroo species are far from extinction, reaching- artificial - plague proportions in many areas." [P. Marshall ed. Additional murders of these people occurred at Warangaratta on the Ovens River, at Murchison (led by the native police under Dana and in the company of the young Edward Curr, who could not bring himself to discuss what he witnessed there other than to say he took issue with the official reports) Other incidents were recorded Mitchelton and Toolamba. Of course, in the decades since then, a number of others have done significant research on the numbers, utilising new archival material and other information and it is obvious that the figure of 20,000 is no longer adequate. This "hunting ground" would have been a ceremonial ground probably called a 'Kangaroo ground'. rsted-Jensen and Evans agree that, based on their Queensland calculations, nationally the Australian frontier conflict during the 19th and into the early decades of the 20th century inflicted a death toll on Indigenous people probably no less than 100,000. The Hawkesbury River near Windsor flooded last month. 3. The rest escaped into the nearby mountains and because the terrain was too rough the police party did not follow, the police report said. Commercial trade in wildlife parts including meat is wrong. A group of police and Aboriginal assistants were dispatched from Wyndham to try and arrest the natives for the murder. 1839 Campaspe Plains Massacre At Campaspe Creek, Central Victoria in May-June saw the genocidal slaughter of the Daung Wurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung people. There are clues to further reprisals at a place called Waterloo, on Rosewood Station, in the Victoria River district of the NT. Along the way, they passed the corpses of those who didn't make it. Where's the hysteria? Police constables James St Jack and Dennis Regan were charged with murder but were never tried, due to insufficient evidence. 1838 Faithfull Massacre Benalla -In April of that year a party of some 18 men, in the employ of George Faithful and William Faithfull, were searching out new land to the south of Wangaratta. One, it seems to me at least, is more Stalinist. He was later invited to join the WA police. Friday essay: 'but we already had a treaty' - Tom Griffiths on a little Estimates of the number of dead still vary widely from less than 1,000 to 30,000. The Dominican Republic has the peculiarity of celebrating its independence not from a colonial power, but from Haiti, which ruled the entire island of Hispaniola for 22 years in the early 19th century. 1824 Bathurst Massacre Following the killing of seven Europeans by Aboriginal people around Bathurst, New South Wales, martial law was declared and many Aboriginal people were killed. This is corroborated by the private correspondence of prospector George Hale: A number of diggers went out to take revenge. 80 Years On, Dominicans And Haitians Revisit Painful Memories Of - NPR Many large scale massacres were to go unpunished due to this practice. Burn em up them, finished, they all there. 1890-1920 'The Killing Times' - East Kimberleys: About half of the Kimberley Aboriginal people massacred as a result of a number of reprisals for cattle spearing, and payback killings of European settlers. The information on this site represents the best evidence available to the research team. Then, in the vicinity of, or possibly on, the present townsite of Benalla, it is alleged that a large number of Aborigines attacked the party's camp. Local oral history, black and white, has it that dozens of Indigenous fighters were shot dead after they charged native police contingents under the command of Sub-Inspector FC Urquhart at Battle Mountain, about 60km from Cloncurry. Banggaiyerri grew up watching shooting everywhere in the Kimberley. Read More, Such propaganda is right out of Joseph Goebbles "Big Lie" technique based on the principle that a lie, if audacious enough and repeated enough times, will be believed by the masses. These wildlife massacres reflect a prevaling backward colonial attitude by our government towards native animals. During that period I read almost everything conceivable that was available in the archives and the newspapers I felt it incumbent, as somebody whod done research of such scope and breadth, to make some sort of public assessment of the number of Indigenous deaths in frontier conflict continent-wide. Jail Creek/Turkey Creek Massacre, 1890s The only official markers of the massacre today are plaques erected on a rock pillar by The Daughters of Utah Pioneers as well as National Park Service interpretive signs at the pull out in the Cache Valley along highway 91, just outside Preston, Idaho. Colonial settlers frequently clashed with Indigenous people (on continental Australia) during and after the wave of mass immigration of Europeans into the continent, which began in the late 18th century and lasted until the early 20th. The kangaroo plague myth is a tired, unproven pious fraud. Goose Hill massacre, 1888 Which makes it hysterical, to use your own inflammatory term. Another party, including the unfortunate mans brothers and several other Europeans, has also started after the offending tribe. bout 220 Aboriginal men, women and children were killed in reprisal for the spearing of a prominent pastoralist in Western Australia in 1886, in possibly the biggest and most enduring massacre in WA and. Creators Hal McElroy Tony Morphett John Hugginson Stars Brett Partridge Peter Bensley Toni Scanlan Bedford Downs massacre, 1924 There appeared no limit to his pettiness. Irwin stated, "This daring and hostile conduct of the natives induced me to seize the opportunity to make them sensible to our superiority, by showing how severely we could retaliate their aggression." Many members of these militias were themselves massacre survivors. 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Although the Kaiadilt avoided contact and refrained from approaching McKenzie's property he is alleged to have often explored the island, shooting any males he found while raping the women. Or a justice system run by and for the colonisers, as it continues to be. Owen speculates that police sometimes found it more expedient to murder prisoners than to walk them for weeks to the nearest justice. 'Unrestrained slaughter': extent of historical revenge killings in WA My starting point for this post is Chris Owens Every Mothers Son is Guilty: Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905 (2016) which I made a start on reviewing earlier (here). [Source]. Ernest Gribble of Forrest River Mission (later Oombulgurri) alleged that 30 people had been killed by the police party. 1890 Speewah Massacre In Queensland early settler, John Atherton, took revenge on the Djabugay by sending in native troopers to avenge the killing of a bullock. Right now we seem to be a country that denies the truth from the top down, about all sorts of things. I cant find any other reference to Jail Creek or Turkey Creek. Fucking hell. The Aboriginal people were (supposedly) protected under British law. My response: These attacks are considered to be a direct and indirect (through displacement and hunger) cause of the decline of the Indigenous population, during an ongoing colonising process of mass immigration and land clearing for agricultural and mining purposes. The River Nile, Van Diemens Land, from Mr Glovers farm, painted by John Glover in 1837. On the morning of Aug. 29, 1865, Brig. Forrest River massacres, 1926 (Wiki here), According to Owen these are only the most notorious. Jarrakan Wyndham to the NT border and down towards Halls Creek How a massacre of Algerians in Paris was covered up - BBC News Jail Creek/Turkey Creek, 1890s. More than 660,000 Haitians and their descendants live in the Dominican Republic, according to a U.N. census in 2012. The reason for the attack is unclear although some sources claim that the men took shots at local Aborigines and generally provoked them. Australia's Native Massacres - neocolonial genocide - can do better
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