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The Waterloo Creek Massacre
Sad News
Written by Emma and Elena
15th of February 2022
!!! OLD BREAKING NEWS !!!
The Waterloo Creek massacre estimated to killed up to 50-300 Indigenous people.
Controversial Opinion by one of our readers:
"Australia day should be a day of mourning not celebration."
What was the Waterloo Creek Massacre?
‘Mounted Police and Blacks’, an 1852 lithograph by WL Walton, depicting the killing of Aboriginal warriors at Waterloo Creek by colonial police troopers.
The Waterloo Creek Massacre occurred on the 26th of January, 1838. We now know that date as Australia Day. It is important to remember the ancestors of the land on which we live on today and know the history of our country, Australia. The exact number of Aboriginals shot by mounted police is still unknown but is has been estimated around 100 of the 'Gamilaroi people' were brutally killed. The Waterloo Creek Massacre occurred the same year as The Myall Creek Massacre (1838).
Find more info below:
https://myallcreek.org/the-massacre-story/
What caused the Waterloo Creek Massacre?
The Waterloo Creek massacre refers to a series of violent clashes between mounted police, civilian vigilantes and the indigenous Gamilaroi people. According to researchers, the massacre was caused by the killing of a station owner, as a result the brother went to seek revenge with a 'posse of settlers' (a body of men, typically armed).