Massacres in the north – my people: Gavi Duncan

Uncle Gavi Duncan tells of the Waterloo Creek and Myall Creek massacres in 1838, in which family members died and how his people were forced from the safe lands and eventually settled near Moree.

Keywords: Moving; law; early settlement; massacres

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