History of Indigenous Australians

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 116. Chapters: Stolen Generations, Timeline of Aboriginal history of Western Australia, History wars, Forrest River massacre, Keith Windschuttle, List of massacres of Indigenous Australians, Australian frontier wars, Coniston massacre, Black War, Bringing Them Home, Prehistory of Australia, Geoffrey Blainey, Gurindji strike, Myall Creek massacre, Native Police Corps, Battle of Pinjarra, Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen, Katherine Mary Clutterbuck, Trugernanner, Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Tomkins incident, La Grange expedition, Stuart Macintyre, Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion, Henry Reynolds, Alas Poor Yagan, Day of Mourning, Soakage, Makassan contact with Australia, Half-Caste Act, List of laws concerning Indigenous Australians, King plate, Exhumation of Yagan's head, Theophilus Parsons Pugh, Gresley Lukin, Richmond River massacres, Moore River Native Settlement, Aboriginal tracker, Possum-skin cloak, Rosendo Salvado, Protector of Aborigines, William Henry Walsh, Baijini, Waterloo Creek massacre, Aboriginal Protection Board, Explorers' Monument, Pintupi Nine, Freedom Ride, Caledon Bay crisis, Hornet Bank massacre, Cummeragunja walk-off, Voting rights of Australian Aborigines, Chicka Dixon, Skull Creek, Aborigines Advancement League, Flying Foam Massacre, Gippsland massacres, Bungaree, Cummeragunja Mission, Battle of Yering, White woman of Gippsland, List of Indigenous Australian historical figures, Kalkadoon, Tullamareena, Moseley Royal Commission, Umbarra, Gary Presland, Marribank, Yirrkala bark petitions, Aboriginal Protection Act 1869, Riji, Wauba Debar, Lyndall Ryan, Black Line, Cullin-La-Ringo massacre, Spinifex resin, Aborigines Progressive Association, Marilyn Lake, Outstation movement, Strehlow Research Centre, Mowla Bluff massacre, A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia, Scarred tree, Ebenezer Mission, Warrigal Creek, Battle of Yindurupilly, Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Excerpt: This is a Timeline of Aboriginal history of Western Australia Aboriginal life in the two centuries from 1629 to 1829, was characterized by the increased presence of Europeans around the Western Australian coastline. First contact, appears to have been characterized by open trust and curiosity, with Aborigines willing to defend themselves against any unwarranted intrusion. The settlement of Western Australia by Europeans, under James Stirling, in the early 1840s, created a new generation of colony born young men who were engaged in hostilities with Aborigines and the imprisonment of those who dared question their authority. The settlement proceeded with the expropriation of land and the exploitation of cheap labour and the extermination of any resistance by Aborigines.. Francis Armstrong visits the 8 Wadjuk campsites around Perth and records only 295 people out of the 1500 there were estimated to have lived there at the time of the arrival of the first settlers 7 years before. The smallest groups were those in greatest proximity to the white settlements. This would seem to indicate that contact with the Djanga (Spirits of the dead = the name given to the settlers) was proving fatal to Aboriginal groups, through killings and reprisals, starvation, or disease, and there may have also been elevated intra-Aboriginal payback killings with a rising rate of accusation for sorcery - (a result of the increase inexplicable to Aboriginal people, of the rise ...