| Site Name | Victoria River District |
| Aboriginal Place Name | Kalkarindji |
| Language Group | Ngarinyman, Karrangpurru, Nungali, Malngin, Wardaman, Ngaliwurru, Bilinara |
| Present State/Territory | NT |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | NT |
| Police District | Bow Hills |
| Latitude | -17.435 |
| Longitude | 130.836 |
| Date | Between 1 Jul 1924 and 10 Jul 1924 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
| Victims Killed | 20 |
| Victims Killed Notes | men, women and children |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Pastoralist(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Opportunity |
| Weapons Used | Firearm(s) |
| Narrative | Citing Charlie Ward’s work, Thomas Mayor wrote of this massacre: 'Under the bough shed that day, the old men explained that they had dared not walk along the road for fear of a confrontation. For on their backs were their meagre belongings; on their hips their small children; and in their minds were memories of a massacre that occurred only forty-two years ago, in 1924—the last reported massacre on Gurindji country. On a small knoll midway between Lord Vestey’s Wave Hill Cattle Station and the police outpost at Bow Hill, peaceful Gurindji families were ambushed by mounted white men wielding rifles. An act of utter savagery ensued. An old man who survived the carnage later recalled how his people were run down and shot like dogs. He described how one or two got away, and another, who climbed a tree, was shot down in cold blood. "Warlatarrka was his name. He was Jungurra [skin]".' |
| Sources | Mayo, 2017, np. https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/a-dream-that-cannot-be-denied/; Ward, 2016, A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-off Monash University Publishing. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
