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[edit] 1800s
The Black War refers to a period of intermittent conflict between the
British colonists and Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)
in the early years of the 1800s. The conflict has been described as a
genocide resulting in the decimation of the full-blood Tasmanian
Aboriginal population, though there are presently many thousands of
individuals with degrees of Tasmanian Aboriginal background. The
culmination of this period was the forcible removal of the survivors,
in the 1830s, to Flinders Island in Bass Strait. The specially built
settlement was not suitable, with terrible living conditions and many
died from disease introduced by Europeans. Later they were moved to a
settlement at Oyster Cove south of Hobart. Some of the descendants of
the Tasmanian Aborigines still live on Flinders Island and nearby
Cape
Barren Island. [1]
[edit] 1820s
1824 Bathurst massacre: Following the killing of seven Europeans by
Aboriginal people around Bathurst, New South Wales, martial law was
declared and around 100 Aboriginal people killed. [2] [3]
[edit] 1830s
1830 Fremantle, Western Australia,: The first official 'punishment
raid' on Aboriginal people in Western Australia, led by Captain Irwin
took place in May 1830. A detachment of soldiers led by Irwin
attacked
an Aboriginal encampment north of Fremantle in the belief that it
contained men who had 'broken into and plundered the house of a man
called Paton' and killed some poultry. Paton had called together a
number of settlers who, armed with muskets, set after the Aborigines
and came upon them not far from the home. 'The tall savage who
appeared the Chief showed unequivocal gestures of defiance and
contempt' and was accordingly shot. 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." In actions that followed over the
next few days, more Aborigines were killed and wounded. [4] [5]
1833-34 Convincing Ground massacre (Gunditjmara): On the shore near
Portland, Victoria was one of the largest recorded massacres in
Victoria. Whalers and the local Kilcarer Gunditjmara people disputed
rights to a beached whale carcass. [6]
1834: Battle of Pinjarra, Western Australia: Official records state
14
Aboriginal people killed, but other accounts put the figure much
higher [7] [8]
1838 Myall Creek massacre - 9 June: 28 people killed at Myall Creek
near Inverell, New South Wales. This was the first Aboriginal
massacre
for which European settlers were tried. Eleven men were charged with
murder but acquitted. A new trial was held and the seven men charged
with the murder of one Aboriginal child. They were found guilty and
hanged.
1838 Waterloo Creek massacre: A Sydney mounted police detachment
attacked an encampment of Kamilaroi people at a place called Waterloo
Creek in remote bushland. [9]
1838 Benalla (Benalta run - musk duck): Grantville Stapylton named
the
river 'Broken'. 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. 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. At least one
Koori and somewhere between eight and thirteen Europeans died in what
became known as the Faithfull Massacre. Local reprisals lasted a
number of years, resulting in the deaths of up to 100 Aborigines. The
reason for the attack is unclear although some sources claim that the
men took shots at local Aborigines and generally provoked them. It
also seems they were camping on a hunting ground
This "hunting ground" would have been a ceremonial ground probably
called a 'Kangaroo ground'. Hunting grounds were all over so not
something that would instigate an attack. The colonial government
decided to "open up" the lands south of Yass after the Faithful
Massacre and bring them under British rule. This was as much to try
and protect the Aboriginal people from reprisals as to open up new
lands for the colonists. The Aboriginal people were (supposedly)
protected under British law.
1830s - 1840s Wiradjuri Wars: Clashes between European settlers and
Wiradjuri were very violent, particularly around the Murrumbidgee.
The
loss of fishing grounds and significant sites and the killing of
Aboriginal people was retaliated through attacks with spears on
cattle
and stockmen. In the 1850s there were still corroborees around Mudgee
but there were fewer clashes. Known cermeony continued at the
Murrumbidgee into the 1890s. European settlement had taken hold and
the Aboriginal population was in temporary decline.
[edit] 1840s
1840-1850 Gippsland massacres of the Gunai people in East Gippsland,
Victoria, Australia in response to their resistance to European
settlement on their land. The real death toll is unclear as few
records exist or were made at the time, from available evidence
(letters and diaries), it appears[10]:
1840 - Nuntin- unknown number killed by Angus McMillan's men
1840 - Boney Point - "Angus McMillan and his men took a heavy toll of
Aboriginal lives"
1841 - Butchers Creek - 30-35 shot by Angus McMillan's men
1841 - Maffra - unknown number shot by Angus McMillan's men
1842 - Skull Creek - unknown number killed
1842 - Bruthen Creek - "hundreds killed"
1843 - Warrigal Creek - between 60 and 180 shot by Angus McMillan and
his men
1844 - Maffra - unknown number killed
1846 - South Gippsland - 14 killed
1846 - Snowy River - 8 killed by Captain Dana and the Aboriginal
Police
1846-47 - Central Gippsland - 50 or more shot by armed party hunting
for a white woman supposedly held by Aborigines; no such woman was
ever found.
1850 - East Gippsland - 15-20 killed
1850 - Murrindal - 16 poisoned
1841 Wonnerup Massacre: George Layman was speared by a Wardandi (from
Wardan = Ocean) man, Gaywer, at Wonnerup House, Capel, Western
Australia when he refused to release an Aboriginal woman held at the
house. This led to the Wonnerup Massacre where white settlers rode
abreast through the tuart forest killing over 250 people on their
tribal land. The dead are reputed to be buried at Ludlow Forest,
currently being mined for mineral sands by Cable Sands. [11]
1841 Rufus River Massacre - August: 35 Maraura people killed in a
two-
day conflict with a number of police and volunteers from Adelaide
after sheep and cattle were stolen and several months of violent
tension.
1842 Deen Maar - Eumerella Wars took place over 20 years in the
mid-1800s. The remains of people involved in the conflict are at Deen
Maar.
1846 Blanket Bay, Cape Otway, Victoria - July: Rape and killing of
numerous local Katabanut (king parrot) people during an expedition of
Native Police dispatched by Captain Foster Fyans.
[edit] 1850s-1890s
1864 Richmond River massacre - January: 100 people killed at Richmond
River, New South Wales.
1865 The La Grange expedition was a search expedition carried out in
the vicinity of La Grange Bay in the Kimberley region of Western
Australia led by Maitland Brown that led to the death of up to 20
Aboriginal people. The expedition has been celebrated with the
Explorers' Monument in Fremantle, Western Australia.
1868 Flying Foam massacre, Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia.
Following the killing of two police and two settlers by local
Yaburara
people, two parties of settlers from the Roebourne area, led by
prominent pastoralists Alexander McRae and John Withnell, killed an
unknown number of Yaburara. Estimates of the number of dead range
from
20 to 150.[12]
1874 Barrow Creek Massacre - February (NT): Mounted Constable Samuel
Gason arrived at Barrow Creek and a police station was opened. Eight
days later a group of Kaytetye men attacked the station, either in
retaltiation for treatment of Kaytetye women, the closing off of
their
only water source, or both. Two white men were killed and one
wounded.
Samuel Gason mounted a large police hunt against the Kaytetye
resulting in the killing of many Aboriginal men, women and children -
some say up to 90. [13] Skull Creek takes its name from the bleached
bones found there long after [14].
1880s-90s Arnhem Land: Series of skirmishes and "wars" between Yolngu
and whites. Several massacres at Florida Station [1]. Richard
Trudgen[2] also writes of several massacres in this area, including
an
incident where Yolngu were fed poisoned horsemeat after they killed
and ate some cattle (under their law, it was their land and they had
an inalienable right to eat animals on their land). Many people died
as a result of that incident. Trudgen also talks of a massacre ten
years later after some Yolngu took a small amount of barbed wire from
a huge roll to build fishing spears. Men, women and children were
chased by mounted police and men from the Eastern and African Cold
Storage Company and shot.
1884 Battle Mountain: 200 Kalkadoon people killed near Mount Isa,
Queensland after a Chinese shepherd had been murdered.
1887 Halls Creek Western Australia. Mary Durack suggests there was a
conspiracy of silence about the massacres of Djara, Konejandi and
Walmadjari peoples about attacks on Aborigines by white gold-miners,
Aboriginal reprisals and consequent massacres at this time. John
Durack was speared, which led to a local massacre in the Kimberley.
1890 Speewah Massacre, Qld: Early settler, John Atherton, took
revenge
on the Djabugay by sending in native troopers to avenge the killing
of
a bullock. Other unconfirmed reports of similar ...
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