| Site Name | Mount Burrell |
| Aboriginal Place Name | Rtetyikale or Tepethetheke |
| Language Group | Luritja |
| Present State/Territory | NT |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | SA |
| Police District | No police district at that stage |
| Latitude | -24.62 |
| Longitude | 133.972 |
| Date | Between 1 Jan 1875 and 31 Dec 1879 |
| Attack Time | |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 15 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Pastoralists |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearm(s) |
| Narrative | Justice John Mansfield's Frances Well Land Claim Report No 64 (2016, p. 10) records that ‘By 1877, the claim area and surrounding country had been taken up by pastoralists. The pastoral lease now known as Maryvale was at that time called Mount Burrell. Three pastoralists unsuccessfully tried to run sheep, cattle and horses there. TGH Strehlow and other anthropologists spoke to those who remembered or had heard about these early days and recorded that there was often violence between the original Mount Burrell pastoralists and the local Aboriginal people. The local people resented the intrusion of the pastoralists and speared their cattle. In retaliation, the pastoralists carried out shootings in the Aboriginal camps. Other oral reports suggest that Aboriginal women were kidnapped by early white settlers’. |
| Sources | Mansfield, 2016, Report, Frances Well Land Claim No 64 2016, https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/publications/tabledpapers/856030dd-db65-48f4-8ac6-0e4cfc748b8f/upload_pdf/PMC001_16_Frances_Well_ACCESS_1509.pdf (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
