Site Name | Laverton (2) |
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | |
Language Group, Nation or People | Wongai |
Present State/Territory | WA |
Colony/State/Territory at the time | WA |
Police District | Laverton |
Latitude | -28.37 |
Longitude | 122.24 |
Date | 11 Sep 1910 |
Attack Time | Dawn |
Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
Victims Killed | 11 |
Victims Killed Notes | men, women and children |
Attackers | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
Attacker Descriptions | Aboriginal |
Attackers Killed | 0 |
Attackers Killed Notes | |
Transport | |
Motive | Reprisal |
Weapons Used | Firearm(s), Waddies/Nulla-nulla(s), Spear(s), Club(s) |
Narrative | Newspaper 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) |
Corroboration Rating | *** |