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Australia's massacres of Aboriginal people.
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January 26, 1788 was the date on which Captain Arthur Phillip took formal possession of the colony of New South Wales and raised the British flag for the first time in Sydney Cove.
In 1838 white people had settled Australia for just 51 years. Pastoralists were pushing into Aboriginal land, dispossessing Indigenous people from the land that nurtured them physically and spiritually.
Aboriginal people did not give up their land that they had looked after for millennia without a fight. White settlers engaged in many clashes with Aboriginal people at the frontier. Fearing to be outnumbered by Aboriginal tribes some settlers escalated low-level skirmishes to the atrocities we now know as Australia's massacres of Aboriginal people.
With the eyes of the law often several days' ride away the settlers had little to fear. Gangs of stockmen went on what was known as 'the Big Bushwhack' or simply 'the Drive': a hunt for Aboriginal people which lasted several months [2]. They thought there was nothing wrong with shooting Aboriginal people or raping Aboriginal women.
Among the massacres, the one at Myall Creek differs from the many other massacres of Aboriginal people in that it is a well documented and extreme example of what white people were capable of perpetrating on Indigenous peoples.
Myall Creek was the tip of the iceberg of frontier violence against Aboriginal people.
"If you do not understand Racism-White Supremacy, what it is, how it works, everything you understand will only confuse you."
- Neely Fuller Jr.
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LuLu BaBa says...
Would the white settlers not have started from a handful of men to a small community?,would they not have been a very tiny minority amongst the vastness of the aboriginal society?,according to your article,the aboriginals have lived on that much better land for a millenia,meaning they would have had a far better advantage when it comes the geography of the land,the terrain would have been known to them like a man knows the house he grew up in,has continued living in even as a grown man,and can,without much difficulty,find his way in,even in the dark.With all these advantages on the side of the aboriginals,what,in God's name,were they doing until a bunch of strangers grew slowly,but steadily,into a formidable army before their very eyes?
The sheer inhumanity cruelty and wickedness of the "settlers" was truly incomprehensible to the aborigines. Wanton killing, rape, pillage and plunder was unimaginable to them.
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