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The Massacre at Wamakee single work   prose   Indigenous story  
Note: told by Rolly Gilbert
Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 The Massacre at Wamakee
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Rolly Gilbert gives a graphic account of the massacre of Aboriginal men, women and children at Wamakee.

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Language: Aboriginal Kurtjar AIATSIS Code: G33 QLD , English
Notes:
In Kurtjar language text with parallel translation in English.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Kurtjar Stories Melba Casey , Roley Gilbert , Paul Black (translator), Billy Adam (translator), Batchelor : Darwin Institute of Technology , 1986 9442165 1986 selected work prose Indigenous story

    'Traditional stories of birds and reptiles and stories after European contact including Wamakee Massacre' (Source: Mura Collection Catalogue, AIATSIS)

         Batchelor : Darwin Institute of Technology , 1986     pg. 77
    Note: 'Wamakee' is a Kurtjar word for Waterhole. (Source: Koch, Harold and Hercus, Luise Aboriginal Placenames: Naming and Re-Naming the Australian Landscape. ANU ePress, 2015:495).
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