Scars in the Landscape: A Register of Massacre Sites in Western Victoria, 1803-1859Scars in the Landscape is a register of massacres and killings of Aboriginal people during 1803OCo1859. Deliberately challenging the ideology that the colonisation of Western Victoria was peaceful, the register reveal that violence was widespread. Through searching contemporary archival material, utilising Aboriginal oral history and local histories, and by studying place names in the region, Ian Clark presents a detailed, meticulously research study of massacres on one Australian region." |
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Djab wurrung | 57 |
Djadja wurrung | 85 |
Djargurd wurrung | 103 |
Gadubanud | 119 |
Gulidjan | 135 |
Watha wurrung | 169 |
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ABORIGINES INVOLVED According Assistant Protector attacked August balug blacks bodies brothers called Captain Charles Chief Protector child clan unknown Clark Creek DATE OF INCIDENT Dhauwurd wurrung language District Djab wurrung Djadja wurrung early employees evidence February Fighting Figure fired Flat four Francis George Robinson given Gulidjan gundidj head Henty Hills James January Jardwadjali John journal July June keeper killed kilometres known Lake land language EUROPEANS INVOLVED late lived LOCATION March massacre mission Mount Mount Rouse murder natives noted October ofthe overseer Parker party person PLACE NAME Port Phillip Portland presumably recorded reference REPORTED ABORIGINAL DEATHS reserve returned River settlers sheep shepherd shot Sievwright Sources South spears squatters station taken Taylor Thomas told took tribe Trobe visited VPRS Wannon River waterhole Watha wurrung Wergaia western Victoria Whyte Wimmera woman women wounded wurrung language EUROPEANS