TY - JOUR
T1 - The Pinjarra Massacre in the Age of the Statue Wars
AU - Curthoys, Ann
AU - Konishi, Shino
PY - 2022/10/2
Y1 - 2022/10/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Bindjareb Noongar
KW - Pinjarra
KW - Massacre
KW - Statue
KW - Stirling
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U2 - 10.1080/14623528.2021.2023986
DO - 10.1080/14623528.2021.2023986
M3 - Article
SN - 1462-3528
VL - 24
SP - 511
EP - 528
JO - Journal of Genocide Research
JF - Journal of Genocide Research
IS - 4
ER -