Site NameLaverton (2)
Aboriginal Place Name
Language GroupWongai
Present State/TerritoryWA
Colony/State/Territory at the timeWA
Police DistrictLaverton
Latitude-28.37
Longitude122.24
Date11 Sep 1910
Attack TimeDawn
VictimsAboriginal People
Victim DescriptionsAboriginal
Victims Killed11
Victims Killed Notesmen, women and children
AttackersAboriginal People
Attacker DescriptionsAboriginal
Attackers Killed0
Attackers Killed Notes
Transport
MotiveReprisal
Weapons UsedFirearm(s), Waddies/Nulla-nulla(s), Spear(s), Club(s)
NarrativeNewspaper articles attribute this massacre to ongoing 'inter-tribal' fights that had been occurring for several years around Laverton (see Laverton Massacre 1908) between who they described as the 'Laverton natives' and the 'Darlot Natives' (Laverton and Beria Mercury, September 24, 1910, p 3; Clarence and Richmond Examiner, September 22, 1910, p 6).
Sources'The Massacre of Aborigines,' Laverton and Beria Mercury, September 24, 1910, p 3 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203551976/22573788; 'The Native massacre,' Clarence and Richmond Examiner, September 22, 1910, p 6 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/61528019/5428156 (Sources PDF)
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