They did not find any Bunurong so they ransacked a squatters station instead. Viki Sinclair, another member of the group who is descended from a member of McMillans Highland Brigade, says: Its the first time around here that the Aboriginal groups came across with groups like ours to work on something like this and it was something important to tackle and do together. [60] Dunderdales geography was correct and it is just possible he knew who he was referring to, given that he arrived in the district just twenty-six years after the event he describedwell within living memory. In other parts of the District, prior to my arrival, they had occasionally come into collision with the Settlersthe consequence of which was the murder of four shepherdsand as far as I can learn without any provocationthey have also committed, and are still committing, many depredations on the stock of the Settlerswhich from the nature of the country, and the known fact of their carrying on their depredations at night, it is difficult to prevent. This 50-minute documentary directed by Lisa Gye and Andrew Dodd examines a day in 1843 when 150 Indigenous men, women and children were slaughtered on the banks of what is now Warrigal Creek in Gippsland. The Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network is hosting a screening of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. There are two significant aspects to this story: Dunderdale specifically named Lachlan Macalister as the perpetrator and he added the caveat on the death toll. 0001031115 00000 n The Van Diemens Land convict economy provided the economic motives for the European settlement of Gippsland, which in turn led to conflict with the Kurnai. This 50-minute documentary directed by Lisa Gye and Andrew Dodd examines a day in 1843 when 150 Indigenous men, women and children were slaughtered on the banks of what is now Warrigal Creek in Gippsland. 27 May - 3 June. I knew two blacks, who though wounded came out of the hole alive. 4 0 obj 0001064309 00000 n the Warrigal Creek massacre - possibly even a participant in it 10. 4751, June, 1980. 0000021061 00000 n Produced and directed by Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye. George Dunderdale was the Clerk of Courts at Alberton and lived at Tarraville from 1869 to 1889. Before declaring Hoddinotts tale to be completely reliable, it would have been prudent to analyse its contents. Word of the murder was sent to Lachlan Macalister. As Bell indicates the early 1840s certainly were . [23] Inwards correspondence Tyers to La Trobe 44/1367 p.5 PROV, [24] Port Phillip Gazette 21 May 1842, p.3, [25] Tyers to La Trobe Inwards Correspondence 45/324 PROV, [27] Tyers to La Trobe Inwards Correspondence 46/219 PROV, [28] Tyers to La Trobe Inwards Correspondence 44/2112, PROV; Port Phillip Patriot 12 August 1839, p.4, [29] Tyers to La Trobe Inwards Correspondence 44/1367, p.4, PROV, [30] Port Phillip Patriot 12 August 1839, p.4, [31] Gardner, P. D. (1994) Through Foreign Eyes, Ngarak Press, Ensay, p.45, [32]Gardner (1993) p.58; (1990) Our Murdering Founding Father, 2nd Edition, Ngarak Press, p.28, [33] The Guardian 6 March 2019; 8 March 2019; Gippsland Times 16 June 2020, [34] Gardner (1993) pp 6-7; (2015) Some Random Notes on Massacres 2000-2015 (on-line essay). [59] McMillans Bushy Park run was on the eastern side of the Avon. [13], The squatting runs were large tracts of unfenced landMacalister had 100 square mileswhere livestock was left in charge of shepherds and hut keepers whose job it was to tend the livestock and prevent it from straying. Elizabeth Balderstone leads a lifestyle that many city dwellers fantasise about, on a farm in Victorias Gippsland, surrounded by friendly sheep, with a humble little creek just 60 metres from her house. The story was written anonymously for a magazine for primary school children eighty-two years after the incident described, without attribution, and by someone who was not there. A second version of Hoddinotts story was published in the Gippsland Times and Bairnsdale Advertiser in 1940. The reference to Bundalaguah Swamp has previously escaped notice. The Warrigal Creek Massacre - the documentary There have now been two packed-out screenings of this documentary at Stratford. [41] The conspiracy of secrecy is used to explain why Hoddinott probably with good reason, chose to remain anonymous, as the account implicated Angus McMillan as the leader of this murderous retaliation. 0000015443 00000 n *OAQg( n}wWdcKuYl7nfTTYP0|8o6rlBUb[O>03v-Jg1]sng~f5!M .]e?n? Gunaikurnai people have visited the land for years to pay their respects, giving Balderstone some understanding of the pain and intergenerational trauma they still experience. 0000002765 00000 n endobj This letter indicates that the Kurnai were still harrying the squatters the year after the massacre is believed to have occurredthere was conflict with the Kurnai before and after the murder of Macalister. Personally, it,s hard to know who to believe, such is my lack of confidence. An excellent and detailed correction of Gardner. The statistical discrepancies likely emerged because Macmillan's group killed Aboriginal people at five different locations in the area. It really hadnt happened before and it just was not even acknowledged or recognised.. These passages represent the sum total of Gardners evidence against McMillan (left), but he does not explain how the story implicates McMillan. The Warrigal Creek Massacre, a documentary exploring the history of colonisation in Gippsland in the 1800s, is screening at the Memo in Healesville on Wednesday 27 February at 6:45pm. 0000003656 00000 n Originally reported by Robinson as such, Gardner has interpreted an obscure comment by Robinson to argue that it was actually a massacre by settlers that Robinson was covering up. Because to move forward we must acknowledge our past. A Mr. Nelsons house was also attacked a few days before, and the blacks, after wounding a man in his employ, decamped with several articles of his property.[19]. Build a site and generate income from purchases, subscriptions, and courses. Its part of our life and its not that I dont stop and think about it. Runaways from the settlers, and others have located themselves in some vacated huts on the Tara River, rendering it dangerous for passengers to approach this neighbourhood Your Excellency cannot for the sake of humanity, good government, well-being, and the safety of this district, much longer withhold from us the protection of those laws which we have a right to demand at your Excellencys hands [21]. He was afterwards adopted by one of the party and called Bing Eye. [6], In contrast, there is an implicit assumption in Gardners work that the Kurnai were passive victims of European violence, but this does not do them justice. The murder of his nephew gave him both a professional and a family interest in chastising the criminals, and he soon organised a party to look for them. This changed with the arrival of Tyers, who told La Trobe: The run-away Convicts, and other bad characters with which the District was infested a few months ago have, I believe been nearly all driven out by the system of surveillance pursued by the Border Police, acting under my instructions.[29]. Wayne, a very valuable and comprehensive article. In July 1843, a European named Ronald Macalister was killed by First Nations men near Port Albert, in Victoria. [10], When the squatters began occupying Kurnai territory with their herds of sheep and cattle, conflict soon followed. The Gippslander story consists of just over a page; within it there is a myriad of minor details that are contradicted by the contemporary newspaper reports. An unexpected error occurred. There is now a documentary on the Warrigal Creek Massacre, near Woodside, north of Yarram. 91 0 obj <> endobj Macalisters letter to the Sydney Morning Herald in 1843 and a search of Trove and the PROV websites reveal that this statement is incorrect. { L{ c$Nb`6`4` ` DwG'g5A$Y&e&i 64*6Cs!k >/Filter/FlateDecode/Index[7 84]/Length 22/Size 91/Type/XRef/W[1 1 1]>>stream Historian Peter Gardner, in a review of all accounts of the massacre, wrote that MacMillan and the Highland Brigade aimed to wipe out all the Aboriginal people in the area. This National Reconciliation week, reflect on the hidden history of the 1843 massacre of the Gurnaikurnai people at Warrigal Creek. I sometimes feel scared that there seems to be such an ugly resistance to understanding our past, she says. The blacks were found encamped near a waterhole at Gammon Creek, and those who were shot were thrown into it, to the number, it was said, of about sixty, men, women, and children; but this was probably an exaggeration.[57]. stream 0000117321 00000 n a federal electorate was renamed that year. Your email address will not be published. [37] Again, no proof is offered. lizabeth Balderstone leads a lifestyle that many city dwellers fantasise about, on a farm in Victorias Gippsland, surrounded by friendly sheep, with a humble little creek just 60 metres from her house. They were feared by their tribal enemies for their ability to attack at nighta skill the Europeans were to encounter.[5]. Gunaikurnai people continue to visit the land to pay their respects. 0000011274 00000 n Gardner himself refers to Nuntin as the station established by McMillan for Macalister on western side of the Avon River in October 1840. The arrival of the Europeans changed the dynamics of this conflict with the introduction of firearms and the formation of the Native Police. x]xG)mIq$hpwwR+VKqPMps^63.ffv>Y ?hiO#'FZ@&.JGr4O,D5nHEK{GDs ,2fspcd88qpB[V,4~nfrpe8,$Y}i{rq]v9sl{3g &6mBRii&"0k2dZNPR5foHWJcJWLlel+_0d)[Vs[ ])[UJT+Wd41 And forward if you like. The quote from Robinson is from Gardners book, Through Foreign Eyes; he says Robinson was incorrect to blame the convicts, because The hostile collisions that occurred following the murder of Macalister and others in Gippsland were carried out by the squatters and their employees.[31] This correction suggests that Gardner entirely overlooked the substance and significance of Robinsons observations. << /Length 17 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 293 /Height 146 /Interpolate The other was a little older; he made his escape up the creek by swimming and diving. 0000010708 00000 n He stated: Mr. Ranold McAlister, nephew of the allegorical author, was dragged off his horse, and cruelly murdered, on the township of Alberton, his head being so totally disfigured that his countenance could not be recognised among even his most intimate friends, by these harmless, innocent denizens of the wild of Gipps Land . It is free to attend this event, but bookings are essential. 0000116911 00000 n @7k_|F_j}t'J'fu_}"Y5Xgx{ps:KQb#wOQ:/[]6Hy Gardners cover-up conspiracy theory thus rests on an obvious misrepresentation of Hatchers account. Stay updated on Warrigal Creek Massacre Documentary Screening and find even more events in Warragul. NAIDOC Week 2019. e8 m-T>6R'WrqPWUVe)0'Yn1UF]2|SOWS)^h|6xy. They will be immediately recommended to interested users. No reason was given for the murder. The newspapers indicate that the murder was not an isolated event and occurred within a wider context of anarchy and violence involving the Kurnai and the convicts. This mass murder was committed by early colonists Angus McMillan and the Highland Brigade. And when Gippsland comes to terms with what happened, and why it happened, theres an opportunity to talk much better about that history.. [44] The word colourful may have been more appropriate. The culture of secrecy surrounding the massacres was evident in Willy Hoddinotts account (as an anonymous Gippslander) published in the Gap magazine more than 80 years later: .css-cumn2r{height:1em;width:1.5em;margin-right:3px;vertical-align:baseline;fill:#C70000;}The brigade coming up to the blacks camped around the waterhole at Warrigal Creek surrounded them and fired into them, killing a great number, some escaped into the scrub, others jumped into the waterhole, and, as fast as they put their heads up for breath, they were shot until the water was red with blood. Once again, Gardner corrected historical material when it did not agree with his Warrigal Creek narrative. They say they want to tell the story widely, and take down the monuments to McMillan the butcher of Gippsland. Their prior absence from the discourse may indicate the level of research in this area. It may be student work out of Swinburne. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 01:43. News; Warrigal Creek doco at the Memo. At a quiet bend on a beautiful creek they committed one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing in the Australian colonies. The Kurnai people were the indigenous inhabitants of Gippsland when the first Europeans arrived. Just before European settlement, the Kurnai raided as far as Brighton and Arthurs Seat on Port Phillip Baya distance of at least 120 kilometres as the crow fliesand they are believed to have wiped out about half of the Bunurong. I asked him if he was not afraid of meeting the Blacks, his reply was, Blks Sir no fear of them now they would run away as soon as they see a white man but there are not many left, he said he had a Brother who had been in Gippsland from the first his name was Bunton & kept a Public house in Gippsland by the Dirty Water Holes & a cattle station joining to Mr. McAllister who was killed, that after Mr. McAllisters murder great slaughter of the blacks took place and that on his brothers station a cart load of Blks bones might be gath.rd up [49]. From 1840, increased numbers of convicts were sent to Van Diemens Land after the cessation of transportation to New South Wales. [30] Escapees living outside the law would therefore have posed a dire threat to the Kurnai. Balderstones home was built 20 years after the massacre which happened just steps from the front door. /Im4 20 0 R /Im1 8 0 R >> >> This was written two years after the murder of Macalister; stating that the slaughter took place after the murder does not necessarily mean that it took place because of the murder. Here are some resources for further research. ]V)cxN:*e%{ZXi8C -[Y1d-ZZ. 0000007199 00000 n Our land of migrants, from the very first in their canoes or who even walked here. The squatters were no doubt imbued with the belief that they had the right to do so on the authority of the British Crown, which claimed sovereignty over the entire continent. There were further reports of violence involving the Kurnai in April 1844 when the Sydney Morning Herald printed a letter from a Gippsland squatter: The blacks are still continuing their outragesburning huts, robbing peoples gardens, and slaughtering cattle by wholesale. Gardner accepted Hoddinotts Gippslander story literally and uncritically, stating that it is completely reliable due to its vividness and detail. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. The Warrigal Creek Massacre: True Story or Apocryphal? endobj 0000012931 00000 n The stories were republished as The Book of the Bush in 1898. Purchase tickets, Many of the stock keepers were ticket-of-leave holders or assigned convict servants. The second piece of evidence from Thomas is the record of his conversation with the Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick in January 1847. But we strive to be one people, equality of opportunity for all, no privilege by birth, truly one nation. One was a boy at the time about 12 or 14 years old. Oh how I wished I had written down the stories my grandmother used to regale us with. The manager of the Krowathunkooloong keeping place in Bairnsdale, Rob Hudson, agrees. A documentary was made in 2018 and a federal electorate was renamed that year to remove the legacy of Angus McMillan, the alleged instigator, who is otherwise remembered as an explorer, squatter, MP and Protector of Aborigines. 0000001766 00000 n The murder of Ranald Macalister may have been the pretext for an attack on the Kurnai at Warrigal Creek or Gammon Creek but this is not borne out by the contemporary historical record. Welcome to you all., Read Quadrant online or as a printed magazine Starting at $88.00 a year. endstream The creek is on a farm 40 kilometres south of Sale, and 200 kilometres east of Melbourne, in the South Gippsland area of Victoria, Australia. You can still browse your favorite events on our I think the first thing for Gippsland is to acknowledge that it does have that history, like other places where bad things have happened, where massacres have occurred, where theres some acknowledgement of whats occurred instead of masking it, a Gurnaikurnai elder, Doris Paton, told the film-makers Andrew Dodd and Lisa Gye. These stories contain the earliest known account of a massacre as revenge for the death of Macalister. <> [51] The latters wife, Lavinia, published a well-known account of their journey. 0000020559 00000 n This documentary tells the story of the Warrigal Creek massacre of 1843 in Gippsland, Victoria, where as many as 150 Gunai Kurnai children, women and . E lizabeth Balderstone leads a lifestyle that many city dwellers fantasise about, on a farm in Victoria's Gippsland, surrounded by friendly sheep, with a humble little creek just 60 metres from. Please call Drouin Library for more information 56 251564. Around 60 Indigenous Australians were killed, and many more were wounded. Following the murder, Lachlan Macalister wrote a letter to Governor Sir George Gipps via the Sydney Morning Herald in which he implicated the governor for the state of anarchy in Gippsland due to the lack of official protection. endobj He was hit in the eye by a slug, captured by the whites, and made to lead the brigade from one camp to another. In July 1844 he wrote, I regret however to observe that the depredations of the Aborigines continue and that the small police force at my disposal is inadequate to put a stop to them. He went on to describe how the natives have been very troublesome, killing 90 head of cattle belonging to Mr Sparks, at various times, and many belonging to Mr Jones. The creek is on a farm 40 kilometres (25mi) south of Sale, and 200 kilometres (120mi) east of Melbourne, in the South Gippsland area of Victoria, Australia. 2020, Cnr. In July 1843, up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were killed near the banks of what is now known as Warrigal Creek. Warrigal Creek Massacre is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. [6=ViWy|4X$l`DvNk#F/W/kO>{Z_:/\ 'lrgQvFY+fGQ 4\y~QVG[\^aeiQ>mx2k |#R[?#5M. ~]}.>xxs6s;^^`MjEa 5oA/P;uv!MU~86>>iBTju?#Ghnudlnr\;u?pIyo%# if+;J6fLA,4lMMhn]Zrg b_tr>b$3]wG4?mdw # 7Lw/_Mx+47nY;N9Uvs1;. This raises the inevitable question of whether the massacre story, based on Gardners interpretation, should be seen as historical fact or an apocryphal tale. [7], Many histories of Gippsland have quaint notions of founding fathers, churches and shires, but the reality is that squatters occupied the region in order to capture a share of the filthy lucre of the Van Diemens Land convict economy. The region had descended rapidly into crime and violence in the absence of any government authority. To discount Macalisters involvement, Gardner states there is no proof he was in Gippsland before 1848. [22] Sydney Morning Herald 15 April 1844, p. 4; the article appears to have Lachlan Macalisters turn of phrase. According to Gardner, the Warrigal Creek massacre was revenge for his murder. This was the cause of great enmity among the surviving Bunurong. The Chief Protector of Aborigines, George Augustus Robinson (right), noted that the settlers were not the only ones to suffer from the convicts: There is however reason to fear that before the arrival of the Commissioner a large amount of mischief had been inflicted upon the original Inhabitants by the lawless and depraved who had infested the port from Van Diemens Land and the Middle Districts [present-day New South Wales] and that the instance recorded (if reports be true) is not the only one in which the Blacks have suffered. Thomas wrote that Meyrick, gave me a most awful statement of doings in Gippsland & tho he stated the utter impossibility of bringing forward valid evidence to convict in a court of law, yet the awful spectacle of human skeletons & pack[s] of bones & report[s] of doings within the last 3 yrs, shows that the Aborigines have been cut off in awful numbers, & the residue left almost totally destitute, in fact he said how they lived God only knew as they were driven to the Lakes & Lagoons where Europeans would not follow them, that the Maneiro Blks (encouraged he believed by the early Settlers) [had] been very instrumental with the Black Police of awfully thinning their numbers that the Awful Sacrifice of life after the Murder of Mr McAlister was awfully reckless & merciless [53]. 2 0 obj This announcement is all that I know, for a screening at Stratford,. I have seen somewhere that this version of the. [11] Sydney Morning Herald 6 September 1843, p.2, [13] Port Phillip Patriot 23 December 1841, p. 3, [15] Fels, Marie Hansen (2010) I Succeeded Once: The Aboriginal Protectorate on the Mornington Peninsula 1839-1840 , ANU E-Press, pp 249-271, [16] See also: George Henry Haydon (1846) Five Years Experience in Australia Felix pp151-152 (on-line edition), [17] Port Phillip Gazette 30 April 1845 p.2, [18] Gardner, P D (2005) The Myth of Tribal Warfare On-line essay, [20] Geelong Advertiser 5 August 1843, p.2, [21] Sydney Morning Herald 6 September 1843, p.2. Fawkner blamed them for most of the conflict between the Europeans and the Aborigines. The La Trobe Journal, 86, 23-36. Probably even as a child I just sensed something its a really spiritual place, she says. [32] Gardners work has been influential and generally unquestioned. Because to move forward we must acknowledge our past. Gardner is dismissive, claiming that Some parts of this account are definitely wrong on the basis that Dunderdale referred to Macalister of Nuntin. Gardner omitted a part of the quote that indicates Hatcher travelled to Gippsland with a man named Bennett. First though, it is necessary to establish the circumstances that led to the European settlement of Gippsland and the resulting conflict with the indigenous Kurnai people, which is the root of the massacre story. 0000024560 00000 n If a historical narrative is to be used as the basis for debate or action in the public sphere, it should be grounded in non-partisan, objective research and analysis. qgAHrgAX8]eAVi a"0Uc|sQ d$uIOrE&n2"c,%$qHFWpTWn>!bB):I\PhE17 Some themes may be unpalatable, including tribal warfare, the murderous role of the Native Police, and the role of convicts as both slave labour and perpetratorsthey are part of the historical record but not always part of the written history. trailer Gardners work has hints of Marxist reductionism, where the Kurnai are portrayed as living in an Arcadian economy that was destroyed by the expansionary capitalism of the land-hungry squatters. McMillan is mentioned once by Gippslander, where he is supposed to have caught Macalisters horse on the road to Sale (which did not exist then). Required fields are marked *. I welcome you all to (insert place name). The validity of the will remains a problem. %PDF-1.4 % There exists little to no official documentation of the Warrigal Creek Massacre. He also stated: There are many persons congregated in Alberton, without any visible means of earning a livelihood, a parcel of the most lawless rogues. << /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC /ImageI ] /ColorSpace << /Cs1 7 0 R From 1839, Angus McMillan tried on numerous occasions to reach Corner Inlet from the Monaro District and finally succeeded in February 1841 when he reached the tidal bank of the Albert River. Historical. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet and work. One might assume that Balderstone was blissfully unaware of this when she moved to the farm in 1974, but she explains she knew about Warrigal Creek from the beginning. 0000014051 00000 n << /Type /Page /Parent 3 0 R /Resources 6 0 R /Contents 4 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 595 842] new domain, Events.com. Voice.Treaty.Truth. [45] Hoddinotts tale thus appears to contain generic elements from the period. Happy New Year to all. This article has been rated as Low-importance on the . This provides a contrast to Gardners analysis, which is based largely on a story from a schoolchildrens magazine from 1925. Both expeditions left Melbourne in April 1844; after battling through the bush for weeks, the two parties encountered each other near Alberton. Still from the Warrigal Creek Documentary produced by Swinburne University Introduction On 30 December 2020 Quadrant published an article entitled "The Warrigal Creek Massacre: True Story or Apocryphal?" by Wayne Caldow1, which was a general attack on my work and in particular on the Warrigal Creek massacre. Ranald Macalister was the nephew of Lachlan Macalister and the fifth European to be murdered by the Kurnai. Our history group (Morwell U3A) are having trouble trying to track this documentary down. Intertribal warfare was endemic in the region with raid and counter raid where men, women and children were slaughtered as they slept, and then eaten. 0000010851 00000 n Peter Gardner[1]. 0000002733 00000 n The Geelong Advertiser reported the murder: It is reported that Mr. McAllister was decoyed from his station by a party of blacks on pretext of having found a flock of sheep that had been missing, and that having got him to a spot favourable for their murderous purpose, they set upon him with their waddies, and despatched him under circumstances of the utmost barbarity.[20]. Hatcher appears to suggest that there was a massacre at Bruthen Creek; Gardner has either ignored or failed to grasp this to make the account fit his Warrigal Creek narrative. 0000023940 00000 n "qd]^vc'OontVsl They travelled with Edward Hobson, who was attempting to find an overland route to Gippsland. bHn=Y,8M*[+GwXfi1^yn}vSuvA@pN. In March 1840, twenty Bunurong men from Westernport escaped the supervision of Assistant Protector William Thomas to undertake a raid into Gippsland. If the problem persists contact Customer Support. 0000034127 00000 n It also suggests that the squatters were unprepared for the resistance they faced. Peter Gardner has written three books in which he asserts that Angus McMillan, The Butcher of Gippsland, was responsible for several massacres of Kurnai people. The Australian reported in August: The Prince George touched at Port Albert on the 25th ultimo, and reports that the Agenoria is taking in cattle there, the captain of which reported the blacks to be in a very riotous state. The history of early Gippsland will invariably include many intersecting and conflicting narratives. The official reports from Tyers to La Trobe from 1844 to 1845 thus describe the situation in Gippsland where the settlers were being attacked by the Kurnai and their stock was being killed. Establishing this will entail the evaluation of all historical themes and not rejecting or ignoring evidence because it does not fit a preconceived narrative. 0000020971 00000 n stream [40] Gippslander (1925) Experiences with Gippsland blacks, The Gap, Education Department, Bairnsdale Inspectorate, Omeo, pp 5-6. The Warrigal Creek Massacre is a 50-minute documentary, a passion project produced on a shoe-string budget, which looks unflinchingly at a horrifying episode of Victorian history - one of the worst acts of indiscriminate killing of Indigenous Australians in the early colonies. Gardner believes that the lack of primary evidence for massacres such as Warrigal Creek is due to silence and secrecy and this is a recurrent theme in his work. The question posed at the start of this article was whether Gardners Warrigal Creek massacre story should be seen as historical fact or an apocryphal tale. Every day I look over and make sure things look peaceful there.. [25], Tyers noted that the Kurnai were geographically isolated from all of the neighbouring Aboriginal tribes, none of whom could understand their language, and From this circumstance, the Chief Protector [Robinson] on his visit to Gipps Land last year, was unsuccessful in his attempts to communicate with them. The isolation from the other tribes meant that their fierce and predatory habits have received no check.[26]. Hoddinott said that more than 100 Aboriginal people were killed on that day. In his first notes [in the 1970s], he talks about the massacre and, from the beginning of my time here, no one ever kept a blanket over the story. xX[~`*E}KgnvqEd%$4?9h1s7KDE+>RT*;[(b 0000117691 00000 n The Warrigal Creek Massacre, a documentary exploring the history of colonisation in Gippsland in the 1800s, is screening at the [.] To secure your seat go to. In Chapter 4, he gives another rendition of the Gippslander story, stating the massacre was lead [sic] by McMillan. LGMedia. 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