{"id":67591,"date":"2017-07-05T16:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T23:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67591"},"modified":"2017-07-05T16:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T23:02:28","slug":"new-map-records-massacres-of-aboriginal-people-in-frontier-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/05\/new-map-records-massacres-of-aboriginal-people-in-frontier-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"New map records massacres of Aboriginal people in Frontier Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Map of massacres &#8211; ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)<\/p>\n<div id=\"main_content\" class=\"page_margins\">\n<div class=\"section media-article media-article-photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Map of massacres\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/image\/8678564-3x2-940x627.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of an online map marking the massacres of Aboriginal clans across Australia's colonial frontier.\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" \/><\/div>\n<p><!-- A modules - end --><\/p>\n<div class=\"page section\">\n<div class=\"subcolumns\">\n<div class=\"c75l\"><!-- B modules - start --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article section\">\n<div class=\"tools btn-group\"><\/div>\n<p><!--endnoindex--><\/p>\n<h1>Map of massacres<\/h1>\n<p><strong>After years of painstaking research,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/c21ch.newcastle.edu.au\/colonialmassacres\/introduction.php\">an online map<\/a>\u00a0marking the massacres of Aboriginal clans across Australia&#8217;s colonial frontier has launched.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 150 sites have been recorded along the east coast, where violent attacks on Aboriginal people took place for decades after the First Fleet arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Historian and conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle Lyndall Ryan believes it will be one of the most comprehensive maps of the Frontier Wars ever produced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this project wanted to provide people with the evidence and finding the evidence has taken a long time,&#8221; Professor Ryan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d like to hope that this is a preliminary map and more and more sites will be added over time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Professor Lyndall Ryan with a map that plots massacres of Aboriginal people\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/image\/8678562-3x2-940x627.jpg\" alt=\"Lyndall Ryan stands next to a screen showing a map that plots massacres of Aboriginal people in the Frontier Wars.\" width=\"661\" height=\"441\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-07-05\/professor-lyndall-ryan-with-the-map-of-massacre-sites\/8678686\"><strong>PHOTO:<\/strong>\u00a0Professor Lyndall Ryan believes it will be one of the most comprehensive maps of the Frontier Wars ever produced.(Supplied: University of Newcastle)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Killings &#8216;designed not to be discovered&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Professor Ryan said finding sources to corroborate oral history of the massacres was difficult, because the killings were &#8220;designed not to be discovered&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Governor Davey's (sic \u2014 actually Governor Arthur's) Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816 (sic \u2014 actually c. 1828-30)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/image\/8678582-3x4-700x933.jpg\" alt=\"A board showing a four-strip pictogram, attempting to explain the idea of equality under the law.\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-07-05\/proclamation-board\/8678680\"><strong>PHOTO:<\/strong>\u00a0A printed proclamation issued by Governor George Arthur (1784-1854) attempted to explain equality under the law. It is incorrectly referred to as Governor Davey&#8217;s Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816.\u00a0(Supplied: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sites in Tasmania, Victoria and most sites in New South Wales and Queensland have been recorded, but Professor Ryan said much more work needed to done in other states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Map of massacres &#8211; ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Map of massacres After years of painstaking research,\u00a0an online map\u00a0marking the massacres of Aboriginal clans across Australia&#8217;s colonial frontier has launched. More than 150 sites have been recorded along the east coast, where violent attacks on Aboriginal people took place for decades after the First Fleet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}