We all learned in school Oh, they just died out, but in fact Aborigines were murdered in enormous numbers and many particular fortunes today, as well as our general prosperity, were built on the backs of those murders. 4. Owen writes that a newspaper report twenty years later suggested that the death toll may have been as high as 80. Watson says he was told that three or four hundred were killed and only three escaped. Bedford Downs Station - Wikipedia Last Sunday marked 152 years since the Baker Massacre against the Blackfeet Nation. The fatal spearing of Big Johnny Durack from a pastoral station along the Ord River (pictured here) led to the deaths of hundreds of Indigenous people in retaliation. A colonist, GH Lamond said four blacks were killed and several wounded. Estimates of the number of dead range from 20 to 150. Banggaiyerri grew up watching shooting everywhere in the Kimberley. I cant even stand looking at the Australian flag, probably because I associate it with ignorant right wingers who dont giving a flying you-know-what about what our prosperity is built upon. I know they learn about Aboriginal freedom fighters, and I understand that is about giving Aborigines respect, but it hardly conveys the impossible situation of spears up against repeating rifles. The information and data on this site may only be re-used in accordance with the Terms Of Use. Jacko has either naively misinterpreted my comparison or more likely deliberately selectively read the article and twisted it to cause offence. Other unconfirmed reports of similar atrocities occurred locally. 430, File 298/1887. Another, in the Kimberleys in WAs north, who came up when I was writing up Kimberley Massacres was Jandamurra. John Durack and his cousin John Wallace Durack of the Ord River pastoral station were allegedly ambushed by a group of Aboriginal men about 97 kilometres from their camp. 'Dominicans and Haitians fell in love then, just like today', Paulina Recio, 84, keeps a portrait of her and her late husband in her living room in Restauracin, Dominican Republic. Lumbia had confronted Hay after the pastoralist had raped one or both of his wives, one of whom was a child. In the 1880s Catholic clergy in the Kimberley were clear that the rapid decline in the Indigenous population was the result of killings rather than illness (I couldnt locate Owens newspaper reference). 0. The Rev. Help the community fight this at VCAT thru crowdfunding, Wonder what Theophanous did to upset the ALP, The idiocy of advocating population growth in Australia, Young Ukrainians being kidnapped to fight and die in the east, Formation of Waffen SS Galizien division celebrated in Ukraine, Germans protest against warmongers at G7 'Security' Conference, Speech: EU President's cowardice before US Nordstream2 saboteurs, Track record since 1945 of US champion of Ukrainian 'democracy', New blog on Australia's overpopulation & its promoters. A party of six men and three native trackers pursued, they said, 20 natives following the spearing of a horse. Willy Azema, president of the Dosmond colony and a descendant of survivors, points (right) to a list of refugees and the land apportioned to them. [P. Marshall ed. Kill a European, and you will pay tenfold. [Fitzgibbon's Massacre - 9th May 2009]. In 1911 a man by the name of McKenzie (other names unknown) was given a government lease for nearby Sweers Island that also covered the eastern portion of the much larger Bentinck Island. That ended on Oct. 2, 1937, when the Dominican military, under Trujillo's orders, began to execute Haitian families as well as Dominicans of Haitian descent. My response: Jacko claims: "It is a defamation of the aboriginal people, putting them on the same level as native animals" Kimberley and NT Aboriginal communities continue to memorialise this massacre in their oral histories. What may well have begun as a simple forgetting of other possible views turned, under habit and over time, into something like a cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale. I also, in researching the book, counted all of the Europeans who were killed. "My father worked the land," recalls Germne Julien (right), 83, born in the Dominican Republic. Even before Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo carved it in blood, the 224-mile border dividing the island of Hispaniola between Haiti and the Dominican Republic was complicated. Very positive of you! [] history must be re-written to include the Indigenous massacres, oppression and deaths in custody which from 1788 till today, and no doubt well into the future, [], Your email address will not be published. Jacko claims: "Anyone who knows Australia knows that kangaroo species are far from extinction, reaching- artificial - plague proportions in many areas." Witness the 1938 Day of Mourning in Sydney (timed to protest against the official sesquicentenary celebrations of the first fleets arrival) organised by the Aborigines Progressive Association, and its declaration: The 26th January, 1938, is not a day of rejoicing for Australias Aborigines. Yet in the border region itself, where Haitians and Dominicans interact in markets, schools and other places every day, people mostly get along well. In the 1970s and 1980s a number of historians among them Henry Reynolds, Marilyn Lake and Richard Broome began focusing on frontier violence, using the colonial records, newspaper archives and family histories (including generational oral accounts of killings). 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. The colonial government decided to "open up" the lands south of Yass after the Faithful Massacre and bring them under British rule. 1880s-90s Florida Station Massacre In Arnhem Land a series of skirmishes and "wars" between Yolngu and whites occurred. A Latino USA radio special commemorating the 80th anniversary of the 1937 killings aired this week on NPR stations. Blackfeet tribal members reflect on the Baker Massacre - Yahoo News But in many ways, the massacre remains a historical footnote, seen as an uncomfortable reminder of a brutal past. The Royal Commission found that 11 people had been massacred and the bodies burned. 1790 Botany Bay Genocide In December, Governor Arthur Phillip issued an order for "a partyof two captains, two subalterns and forty privates, with a proper number of non-commissioned officers from the garrisonto bring in six of those natives who reside near the head of Botany Bay; or, if that number shall be found impracticable, to put that number to death". 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 reason for the attack is unclear although some sources claim that the men took shots at local Aborigines and generally provoked them. In his 1983 biography, Banggaiyerri tells a different story to that of Mary Durack: When they started forming the stations, Johnnie Durack would ride around from the old station with a pack, round and round to find the good places. 1386. The fact that an Aboriginal man brought the perpetrators to trial. Fred Marriot, Halls Creek, 1886. "Trujillo did it because he hated us, because he didn't want to see black people in his country. Ordinary Australians get defensive when this stuff is brought up and it will be a long time before it is generally accepted. The Raid on Oyster River (also known as the Oyster River Massacre) happened during King William's War, on July 18, 1694, at present-day Durham, New Hampshire .