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bout 220 Aboriginal men, women and children were killed in reprisal for the spearing of a prominent pastoralist in Western Australia in 1886, in possibly the biggest and most enduring massacre in WA and. WAPD, East Kimberley Wyndham Police Station. hide caption. Managers and stockmen from adjacent stations, including the notorious Jack Carey, started shooting, finally stacking the bodies with the wood and setting them alight with kerosene. After two trials, seven of the 11 colonists involved in the killings were found guilty of murder and hanged. Purchasing all stocked and viable stations along the western Roper River, they began moving cattle eastward. The Royal Commission found that 11 people had been massacred and the bodies burned. Lumbia had confronted Hay after the pastoralist had raped one or both of his wives, one of whom was a child. Jacko claims: "Anyone who knows Australia knows that kangaroo species are far from extinction, reaching- artificial - plague proportions in many areas." The river rises below the Durack Range then flows north, discharging into the west arm of Cambridge Gulf . That was where he ran into the blackfellers. He also quotes a near-contemporary to the events, a stockman named Doug Moore, as saying: Waterloo Station was named on account of the battle with natives there years ago. In the 1920s Anthony Martin Fernando, an Aboriginal man, protested widely in Europe, including in front of Australia House on the Strand in London, against the violence inflicted on his Indigenous brothers and sisters. The text describes how an early period of peace descended into a cycle of attacks and reprisals, including the enslavement of hundreds of local Native Americans about 20 years before the Oyster . 'A very tragic history': how the trauma of a 1926 massacre echoes Ernest Gribble of Forrest River Mission (later Oombulgurri) alleged that 30 people had been killed by the police party. Bundaberg 'News-Mail' 23 May 1967. Oral histories of the massacres were passed down and artists such as Rover Thomas have depicted the massacres. Thank you. Gerhard Leitner, Ian G. Malcolm, mass poisonings of Aboriginal Australians, Eastern and African Cold Storage Supply Company, Genocide of indigenous peoples of Australia and Tasmania, Mass poisonings of Aboriginal Australians, "Mapping the massacres of Australia's colonial frontier", "The killing times: a massacre map of Australia's frontier wars", "Map of colonial frontier massacres in Australia 1788-1930", "Dozens of massacre sites added to online map of colonial time Aboriginal killings", "The Killing Times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront", "Colonial frontier massacres in Central and Eastern Australia, 17881930: Introduction", "Attempted Aboriginal massacres took place as recently as 1981, historian says", "Map of indigenous massacres grows to included more sites of violence across Australia", "Colonial frontier massacres in Central and Eastern Australia, 17881930: Statistics", "Australian Aborigines in chains at Wyndham prison, 1902", The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, "National Museum of Australia: Bells Falls Gorge interactive", "National Trust account of the 1824 Bathurst war", "Blackmans Point massacre of Birpai people could soon be formally acknowledged", "B.