Map Charts Early Massacres Of Indigenous Australians Bbc News According to historians and researchers working on the university of newcastle’s colonial frontier massacre mapping project, “a colonial frontier massacre is defined as the deliberate and unlawful killing of six or more defenceless people in one operation.”. [1] this map, based on the extensive research of evidence including firsthand. A digital map of colonial frontier massacres in australia, 1788 1930 were frontier massacres in australia widespread or were they a rare event? to date, the digital map shows that between 1794 and 1928: more than 400 massacres of indigenous people took place on the australian frontier, resulting in more than 10,000 deaths.
Map Of Massacres Of Aboriginal People In Australia 1794 1928 Youtube Prof lyndall ryan with the map, which took four years to compile researchers have created what they say is the most comprehensive map yet to detail the massacres of indigenous australians by. To date, researchers have charted six massacres of colonists by aboriginal clans. indigenous groups, by contrast, were subjected to more than 150 attacks, which resulted in the deaths of about. The map pulls the sources together to form a coherent list of frontier massacres spanning 80 years across eastern australia. ” it has been a four year process to map the frontier massacres in eastern australia, a project funded by an australian research council (arc) grant investigating violence on the australian colonial frontier, 1788 1960. Colonial frontier massacres, australia, 1788 to 1930. please read the introduction for more information about this map. nb: points are imprecise to approx. 250m. sources rarely provide an exact location and some incidents took place over a broad area. please be advised that the colonial frontier massacre map has undergone regular revision.
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