The Pinjarra Massacre in the Age of the Statue Wars

The Pinjarra Massacre of 1834 was a large-scale colonial attack on Aboriginal people in Western Australia. Led by Governor James Stirling, a party of British police, soldiers and settlers ambushed a group of Bindjareb Noongar, killing of at least 15 Bindjareb Noongar men by Stirling's reckoning...

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Published in:Journal of genocide research 2022-10, Vol.24 (4), p.511-528
Main Authors: Curthoys, Ann, Konishi, Shino
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
Aboriginal Australians
Australian history
Bindjareb Noongar
Colonialism
Indigenous peoples
Killing
Mass murders
massacre
Massacres
Military personnel
Pinjarra
Settlers
Soldiers
statue
stirling
Victims
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Summary:The Pinjarra Massacre of 1834 was a large-scale colonial attack on Aboriginal people in Western Australia. Led by Governor James Stirling, a party of British police, soldiers and settlers ambushed a group of Bindjareb Noongar, killing of at least 15 Bindjareb Noongar men by Stirling's reckoning, and as many as 80 men, women, and children by other accounts. Though the event was widely recorded in the nineteenth-century, this massacre was effaced in the commemoration of its leader - Governor Stirling. This article will trace the history of the massacre and how it has been remembered, the troubled history of a statue of Stirling which still stands in the city of Perth, and the fight by Bindjareb Noongar to establish a memorial to the victims.
ISSN:1462-3528
1469-9494
DOI:10.1080/14623528.2021.2023986