MYALL CREEK MASSACRE

WHERE

• The massacre took place at Myall creek near Gwydir River, in the central New South Wales district of Namoi, involved the killing of up to 30 unarmed indigenous Americans by ten Europeans and one African on the 10th of June 1838.

WHEN

• On the 10th of June 1838 white people had settled in Australia for just 51 years. Pastoralists were pushing into aboriginal land, killing indigenous people from the land that natured them.
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WHO

• A group of eleven stockmen, consisting of assigned convicts and former convicts, led by one, John Henry Fleming, who was from Mungie Bundie Run near Moree, arrived at Henry Dangar's Myall Creek station in New England on 9 June 1838. They rode up to the station huts beside which were camped a group of approximately thirty-five Aboriginal people. The aboriginals actually got along with the convicts and were given names like daddy, king sandy, joey, Martha and charley. Next 👉

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• When the stockmen rode into their camp, when asked by the station hut keeper, George Anderson, what they were going to do with the Aboriginal people, John Russell said they were going to "take them over the back of the range and frighten them." They took them to a gully on the side of the ridge about 800 metres to the west of the station huts. There they slaughtered approximately 28 people who were largely women, children and old men all except for one woman who they kept for the next couple days.

RESULTS OF THE MASSACRE

• 30 unarmed indigenous Australians were killed who were largely women, children and old men. John Henry Fleming, the leader of the massacre, was never captured. John Blake, one of the four men acquitted at the first trial and not subsequently charged, committed suicide by cutting his throat in 1852. A memorial to the victims of the massacre was unveiled on 10 June 2000, consisting of a granite rock and plaque overlooking the site of the massacre.

COULD IT OF BEEN AVOIDED

• I think the massacre could of been avoided if the aboriginals did not camp so close to the stockmen and convicts. So they would of never been found by the stockmen.