Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre

by Jane Lydon, Lyndall Ryan (Editor)

Overview

The 1838 Myall Creek Massacre is remembered for the brutality of the crime committed by white settlers against innocent Aboriginal men, women and children, but also because eleven of the twelve assassins were arrested and brought to trial. Amid tremendous controversy, seven were hanged. Marking its 180th anniversary, this book explores the significance of one of the most horrifying events of Australian colonialism. Thoughtful and fearless, it challenges us to look at our history without flinching as an act of remembrance and reconciliation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781742235752
Publisher:	UNSW Press
Publication date:	07/01/2018
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia, and currently serves as the Chair of History (2016-2018). Jane wrote The Flash of Recognition, published by NewSouth Publishing in 2012.

Lyndall Ryan is Conjoint Professor of History in the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle. A trailblazing historian of Indigenous Australia, she is well known for her book The Tasmanian Aborigines and in 2017 launched an interactive site of frontier massacres across Australia.

Table of Contents

A note on the word clouds Ross Gibson vi

Maps viii

Acknowledgments x

Foreword Sue Blacklock John Brown xi

Introduction: Remembering Myall Creek Lyndall Ryan Jane Lydon 1

Chapter 1 'A very bad business': Henry Dangar and the Myall Creek massacre 1838 Lyndall Ryan 15

Chapter 2 The twelfth man: John Henry Fleming and the Myall Creek massacre Patsy Withycombe 38

Chapter 3 Witnessing Myall Creek Jane Lydon 52

Chapter 4 'The Aboriginal Mother': Poetry and politics Anna Johnston 68

Chapter 5 The Myall Creek massacre: Was it typical of the time? Lyndall Ryan 85

Chapter 6 Connecting Myall Creek and the Wonomo Iain Davidson Heather Burke Lynley A Wallis Bryce Barker Elizabeth Hatte Noelene Cole 100

Chapter 7 Myall Creek memories John Maynard 111

Chapter 8 Walking on bones Jessica Neath Brook Andrew 130

Afterword Mark Tedeschi 161

Bibliography 168

Notes 181

Index 201