Topics: Events: North West

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The Myall Creek Massacre and the trials of most of the perpetrators mark a devolution of burden of colonial security and punitive expeditions against Aboriginal people from the control of the British garrison to that of settlers and local police

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a response by Bishop Broughton is worth noting : he disapproves of mixed marriages on the grounds that the Aborigines are unbelievers

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They include the forced removal of Gooris onto mission stations or reserves such as at Karuah and St. Clair (Singleton)

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one living with him although 30 came to the mission

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a “young, conceited, self-complacent gentleman” who with “extreme loquacity” advocated summarily flogging “of the blacks without trial”

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Lt Charles Wilkes donates this cloak to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington

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Their sentence is commuted to two years labour in irons on Coal Island in Sydney Harbour, where they are to be kept in isolation and employed in stone cutting

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The Wolombi police establishment includes a clerk of court, chief constable, district constable, eight ordinary constables, two watch house [gaol] keepers and a scourger (whipping man)

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Myall Creek massacre of 1838, Eliza was outraged by these atrocities. She wrote the lament “The Aboriginal Mother”. This poem is remarkable for her use of Aboriginal words

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“Little Breeches” assists to track and capture a gang of bushrangers

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Native Police inquiry

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“William Bird, the Aboriginal “Squatter”, the news feature poses the question: should such a man be refused to purchase land because he is an “Aboriginal native”?

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prevent white men taking Aboriginal women from their own people by “force, fraud and bribery”

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Threlkeld records the language spoken by the “Aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter River, Lake Macquarie etc”. He prints some of them during 1850

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He and several other Aborigines were arraigned for burglary

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“stand my punishment as a man of honor, though I have done no wrong”

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Boney worked and received rations at “Lilburndale” near Sackville Reach during July 1883

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He was buried in Rookwood Cemetery

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He favoured me several times with his company, and perhaps thought it an honor when he made proposals to me for the matrimonial alliance with one of the members of my family

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Eventually members of all four communities intermarried