Site NamePerth Area
Aboriginal Place Name
Language GroupWhadjuk Noongar
Present State/TerritoryWA
Colony/State/Territory at the timeWA
Police DistrictPerth
Latitude-31.953
Longitude115.861
DateBetween 1 Apr 1833 and 1 Sep 1833
Attack TimeDay
VictimsAboriginal People
Victim Descriptions
Victims Killed16
Victims Killed Notes16-25 killed, and nearly twice as many wounded.
AttackersColonists
Attacker Descriptions
Attackers Killed0
Attackers Killed Notes
TransportFoot
MotiveOpportunity
Weapons UsedMusket(s), Bayonet(s)
NarrativeIn September 1833 an article appeared in the Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal (September 7, 1833, p 142), describing how Noongar leaders Migo and Munday expressed a desire to meet with Noongar interpreter Methodist Missionary Francis Armstrong. Armstrong and the pair could converse sufficiently to come to an explanation that the Noongar people ‘wished to come to an amicable treaty with us, and were desirous to know whether the white people would shoot any more of their black people. Being assured that the white people would not, they proceeded to give the names of all the black men of the tribes in this immediate neighbourhood who had been killed [Names not included in article], with a description of the places where they were shot, and the persons who shot them. The number amounted to sixteen, killed, and nearly twice as many wounded; indeed it is supposed, that few have escaped uninjured...They seemed perfectly aware that it was our intention to shoot them if they "quippled"…committed theft, they said then no more white men would be speared' (The Perth Gazette September 7, 1833, p 142).
SourcesPerth Gazette and West Australian Journal, September 7, 1833, p 142 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/641889/148 (Sources PDF)
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