| Site Name | Wirrilu (Blackfella Creek) |
| Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Place Name | Wirrilu |
| Language Group, Nation or People | Ngarinman, Bilinara |
| Present State/Territory | NT |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | SA |
| Police District | Gordon Creek |
| Latitude | -17.502 |
| Longitude | 130.974 |
| Date | Between 15 Aug 1890 and 16 Aug 1890 |
| Attack Time | Afternoon |
| Victims | Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People |
| Victim Descriptions | |
| Victims Killed | 15 |
| Victims Killed Notes | |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Pastoralist(s) |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearm(s) |
| Narrative | Ronnie Wavehill Wirrpngayarri (cited in Charola & Meakins 2016, pp 43-44): 'They were spearing the cattle. The kartiya [whitefellas] came and surrounded the ngumpin [Gurindji]. There was no hope; they were only going to shoot... The ngumpin at the creek went running across the plain, running the way they used to be able to run. The others on horseback tried catching up to them but they couldn't. They followed them, shooting from behind. Some of the old people couldn't run so fast and got shot.
Hope reported in the Northern Territory News (19 Aug 2016, p. 12): 'Locals say Wirrilu, or Blackfella's Creek, about 25km away from Tartarr, was an earlier (perhaps late 1800s) and more brutal event. Here white men on horses picked up frightened toddlers and flung them into rocks, they say. The bodies are reportedly still next to the creek, underneath still-visible mounds of stone'. |
| Sources | Charola & Meakins 2016, pp 43-44; Hope, NT News, 19 August 2016, p 12 https://kooriweb.org/foley/news/2000s/2016/ntnews19aug2016.pdf. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
