Massacre Recollections :: Elder Stories of the Frontier Wars in FNQ 

This is Australia , A country will never accept this kind of violence against First Nations people. For too long we have live in this country of lies and deception and hatred for our people. Racism in this country will never end . But other than that hopefully this story and many more will continue to spread through RU-vid and I hope sensible people will understand the true story of this country. Peace ✌🏽

Well done Tim Bottoms. Here in NZ our original people were mistreated under colonial rule but our tribulations don't even come close to what indigenous Australians suffered. I love Australia it's a beautiful country! But try as I might not to judge I find the inherent normalisation of the nastiest racism among 'white' Australians shocking. So wtf Australia? Why is this story not nationally taught, told and acknowledged? Shame on you for your paltry modern apologies!

More and more descendants of settler families are speaking out the truth of what was done in removing Indigenous people to make way for their sheep and cattle. Susannah Henty and David Marr are among them. The stories are out there in written records of the time and not just in the memories of Aboriginal families. Australians have chosen the great silence rather than the truth but the history of our settlement is an open wound that will not go away.

Well done, we need more people talking about this history of our nation, not just the white washed version you see in schools

What saddens me is the blatant racist remarks I hear and see, pretty much on a daily basis since I moved to Brisbane, I noticed some people don't even realize what their saying is racist, and when I call them out they look at me like I'm the monster

and they wonder why we don't celebrate australia day. While it was confronting, it was a well put together video. Thank you.

I lived on the Atherton Tablelands in the mid eighties I was told by a local store keeper that the area around Yungaburra was "taboo" to the aboriginals and this taboo was supposed to have something to do with the two volcanic lakes nearby The store keeper said he had only ever know of one aboriginal to have lived in the town he said when he was kid there was an old aboriginal fella there who as a child had been involved in a "cannibal feast" and had been spared and raised by the local minister

Very interesting video, good to see where the stories came from (past elders). I am a "new Australian" I arrived in 1949 and through school and general knowledge knew of the massacres in a general way. it seems things change over time and it was not talked about much. I know my people were not to blame and I understand the grief that the relatives go through but I can't talk about it every day or say I am sorry every day. Sooner or later I had to say to myself "get on with it"

There are multiple written records from Europian settlers, stored in archives within libraries, that cannibalism were an indiginous custom. Eating children was one of them. There are also written records from Chinese sailers around 400AD and Dutch sailers before English prisoners were dispossessed of their land, who witnessed current aboriginals massacring pygmies. Today's ancestor's committed genocide toward the first settlers - pygmies. The truth should be told

Here's the story of Aborigines killing and eating each other, trouble is there's no money for them! Cape York: The Savage Frontier

These are lovely stories. Is there any actual evidence to support any of these fantastical claims?

Even if these massacres did occur ,i dont see why people 200 years and not related to any of the perpetrators, should have to pay reperations to a group of people who are not related to or have anything to do with the things that happened those many years ago!!

Changing the victim mindset from then and concentrating on the future ,may be far more beneficial than dredging up the past century .most ethnicities have committed crimes against their own and others over thousands of years,but have achieved moving on,and assimilated with all without any trouble.

great collection 👍

Not going to lie, this would definitely been some of my fathers side of the family settling in these days and frankly, I feel nothing but shame watching this and hearing what my not so distant ancestors, just did to build their little huts, farms and roads... I can't believe I only got shown this now after 27 years on this earth. Yet another point of shame on my part...

I accept what has happened in the past is beyond heartbreaking I would also like to say the Aboriginal people lived in groups of 600 familys and massacred other Aboriginal groups over women and revenge. There are sites of mass graves dated older than the white mans arrival and just live White people like to cover these atrocities up the massacres by Aboriginals are also covered up. White people were massacred too and this usually brought retaliation. The smoothbore brown bess was used up until 1860 which had limited range and accuracy after 1860 much more potent firearms were used

If this has been resurrected to try to persuade us to vote for the Voice - It will not work, I will still vote no.

So many stories. So little evidence. So many victims.

sadly in 2015 AURUKUN is a tribal war sone

A different time another place…. We must never forget… but we must move on ..

The blatant disregard of the murder of hundreds of thousands of people and the belligerent propaganda is astounding!! 1826 Australia was 100% indigenous and is 3% only 198 years later is historically considered genocide. But yet none of you will even acknowledge that one fact to begin with

Is the graphic featured @ 1:16 available please? Thank you. :-)

Weren't the native police primarily Aboriginal?

Really Interesting video. Having grown up in Tully we never heard about any of this at school. Played footy with one of the Muriata boys

These peoples stories got bigger and more exaggerated as time went on.

They are not Indigenous. They are aboriginal.

Hmmm. Sorry, can't just accept stories handed down as oral history. Here is why. Up to 500 people massacred, and burnt to nothing even bones cannot be found. It would be impossible, to cremate 500 adult males in an open field. The high temperatures required for cremation (1,400 to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit) are difficult to achieve and maintain in an open field. It would take a very long time to cremate 500 adult males. And would require tons of wood. The formal one-person cremation process typically takes two to four hours, depending on the size of the body and the type of crematory equipment used. Here we are talking about an open fire in a field) In an open field, the cremation process would likely take much longer, as the heat would not be as concentrated. It seems to me that something happened, but the passing down of oral history cannot be relied on. This doesn't cast doubt on all aboriginal oral history, but it needs to have a basis in facts. Reconciliation will require both aboriginal history and settler history. It can't be one or the other.

So they never did that to each other I think not

He " believed " .

These are the truths that are and will not be taught in schools. 😠 We can't forget our stories and never will. AUSTRALIA has a black history.

*☼ that was awesome*

Isn't this the way it has always been? Isn't it still happening today? Look at what is happening in Ukraine, hundreds of thousands are being killed. Wasn't it the same way when the modern Aboriginals ran up against the earlier residents of the land.

Would you be able to help me put a memorial my people's in the irvinebank area tablelands Queensland

Absolute Mcdribble.! CHEERS for handouts. Reparations Reparations.

Still voting No!

The aboriginals of FNQ were savage cannibals.They frequently hunted down gold seekers and broke their legs if not in a hurry and came back a few days later.

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what caused the frontier wars

It's a mystery to me how any British person could be proud to be British. They must name all the Australian places with traditional Names and title's. How dare they represent the Anzacs before the Frontier Wars. I have respect for the Anzacs because they are First Australians, also. But the Australian Frontier Wars are the most important. Because The First Australians were the 'First to died, defending Australia from the British invaders. Statue of Captain Cook removed in Cairns. After 50 years on Sheridan Street, the giant concrete statue has been pulled down. It's now ready for an Australian patriot Statue of Dundalli to replace it, indeed.🤟🤘🤙👍 Australian frontier wars are the most violent conflicts ever seen in Australia. This occurred because the British invaded and stole the country, not the Air raids on Australia, 1942-1943. Like the British write history. The worst criminals in Australian history are not Bank robbers, Drug traffickers, Australian criminal families or Americans. The worst mass shooting isn't even Martin Bryant, Port Arthur. The worst criminals in Australian history are the English, Cornish and Scottish, Irish. British colonies turned Australian into Britain, after the British trashed the UK. They arrived and chopped down all the trees for sheep. And trashed Australia. They have to also stop calling them settlers, there was no formal agreement of giving up property. So settlers are colonists and invaders. No such title as settlers. Settlers use a Pen to write a treaty. The Irish and British convicts and free settlers used guns and poison. The First Australians were the riches people on earth. Now they are the poorest. Living of the land for thousands of years until the British invaders and oppressors and persecutors and mass murderers arrived. Mungo Man and Mungo Lady. Australia's oldest human remains. The skeletons that rewrote human history. No British people could ever do that or be that important. haha

Horrendous

I’m shocked slaughter of my brothers and sisters

Absolute garbage

Advance Australia fair

Mr Bottoms do you not think that your video rewriting history and alleging these crimes should have some supporting evidence? I am not minimising such acts if they were committed but your video has a lot of hearsay evidence (burning 400-500 people would leave evidence that would be there today). Who committed these crimes? I have no doubt that such crimes were committed by both settlers and aboriginals as there was a battle for the land. There were also over a hundred "nations" who fought each other. There would exist government records and remains of bodies. Did you make any enquiries in this regard? You judge people of the past with your values(your opinions) of the present. That was a time of life and death for both settlers and Aboriginals. If you want to virtue signal and insult Australians with the claim of silence (How the hell are people to know if it was a secret) you need to : 1. Not dramatise the matter 2. Do some comprehensive research, not just one-sided hearsay 3. Do not virtue signal 4. Do not require any Australian to react in accordance with your pompous judgement 5. Accept that Australians are good people whom you insult by demanding they carry some burden (your claim in the video that you do not expect this is lip service) 6. Accept Australians are looking to the future and wish to help the Aboriginal people but this is being hindered by 6.1 An incompetent and enormous (as in large and evil) public sector handling Aboriginal Affairs at both State and Federal levels 6.2 Corrupt Elders and Aboriginal organisations 6.3 Race grifters both white and aboriginal such as those who showed themselves in the lead-up to the recent referendum. I apologise for the tone of this feedback which comes from being exhausted by the dishonesty, virtue signalling and un- Australian behaviors of the PM and YES campaigners.

Until there is supporting evidence these are just that, stories.