Goulbolba Hill Massacre
The Goulbolaba Hill massacre of Aborigines occurred in 1869. The incident was verbally by the community of white settlers on Nagace River west of Rockhampton in Queensland in Australia reported a correspondent of Rockhampton "Morning Bulletin" in August 1899th
The local Aborigines fought against the land grabbing of their tribal area by the British colonialists and found themselves in violent confrontations with them because their traditional livelihoods were destroyed. When a shepherd at St. Helen Station in the Goulbolaba area was found mutilated and killed by a spear, Frederick Wheeler , who had commanded the Queensland Native Police Corps since August 17, 1848 , was left by the ranchers called for help. A black man who worked at St. Helen's Station learned of this and warned members of this Aboriginal clan, who were retreating knowing the violence by Wheeler on Goulbolaba Hill. Wheeler found the traces of the Aborigines and the following day came with about 100 armed whites to Goulbolaba Hill, where a massacre took place in which about 300 men, women and children of the clan were killed.
literature
- Ross Gibson (2007): Seven Versions of an Australian Badland, hountet by fear and tragedy, this stretch of a country is an immense, historical crime ..., old passions and violent secrets are lying around in a million of clues and traces . University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0702233494 Available online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gibson: Seven Versions. P. 65 f.