Site NameKings Canyon
Aboriginal Place NameLilla, Watarrka National Park
Language GroupLuritja
Present State/TerritoryNT
Colony/State/Territory at the timeSA
Police DistrictAlice Springs
Latitude-24.231
Longitude131.576
DateBetween 1 Aug 1894 and 20 Aug 1894
Attack TimeDay
VictimsAboriginal People
Victim DescriptionsAboriginal
Victims Killed10
Victims Killed Notesmen, women and children
AttackersColonists
Attacker DescriptionsPolice
Attackers Killed0
Attackers Killed Notes
TransportHorse
Motive
Weapons UsedFirearm(s)
NarrativeThe Watarrka National Park Joint Management Plan (2010, p 14) includes this extract: 'One Traditional Owner recalls “My father told us that at one time when he was young, his father and grandfather took him into the hills behind Lilla to hide from a white man who was shooting Luritja people around Kings Canyon. The Watarrka mob were sitting down there and policemen came and shot them. Just like that. My father told me that”.'
SourcesWatarrka National Park Joint Management Plan, 2010 https://hdl.handle.net/10070/619652  (Sources PDF)
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