Mapping The Massacre Of Aboriginals

On the 1st May 1838 at Slaughterhouse Creek 15 heavily armed stockmen attacked too killed 300 Kamilaroi aboriginals. The massacre occurred only iv months afterwards l Kamilaroi people were killed yesteryear police line at nearby Waterloo Creek

These 2 massacres too over 150 other massacres of aboriginal people are located on the Colonial Frontier Massacres inwards Eastern Commonwealth of Australia 1788-1872 interactive map. The map is exercise of the University of Newcastle's efforts to tape too document colonial frontier massacres inwards Australia. To qualify every bit a massacre vi or to a greater extent than people convey to convey been killed.

The release of aboriginals killed inwards the frontier wars runs to the tens of thousands. So far the university's map accounts for approximately 4,000 aboriginal deaths.