Topics: Events

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North West - view

Waterloo Creek and Myall Creek massacres in 1838

South West - view

Appin massacre in 1816

North West - view

the role of the land council to care for and protect Darkinjung country “to honour the people who died in vain for this country

South West - view

Between 1814 and 1819 there were a series of massacres and killings.

South West - view

Appin Massacre of 1816

South West - view

Appin massacre in 1816

North West - view

many Aboriginal people, including his grandmother and great-grandmother, were sent to Redournberry by the Singleton council when the St Clair Mission closed in 1923

South West - view

In 1810 Auntie Glenda Chalker ’s ancestors greeted Governor Lachlan Macquarie at Birragal Lagoon . In 2010 Auntie Glenda and her children and grandchildren re-enacted this greeting by meeting current Governor of NSW, Marie Bashir, at this same billabong and giving her flowers

South West - view

the ongoing desecration of art sites

North Coastal - view

the battle at Toongabbie Creek in the late 18th Century that led to enmity between the Darug and the Gai-mariagal

South West - view

the story of what led to the Appin massacre in 1816

South West - view

the establishment of the Gandangara land council in 1985.

North Coastal - view

the battle at Toongabbie Creek in the late 18th Century that led to enmity between the Darug and the Gai-mariagal , and how a recent ceremony and re-understandings have brought them together again

Central - view

the early 1970’s, during “The Redfern Aboriginal Revolution”, starting at The Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs

North West - view

Sackville Reach Reserve , which closed in the 1940’s

Central - view

Aboriginal people fought at war and still lost their children and homes

North Coastal - view

bulldozed in 1959 and the people taken away in a truck

Central - view

In 1972, Pat Eatock went to the first National Aboriginal Land Rights conference in Alice Springs.

North West - view

Myall Creek massacre

Central - view

Aboriginal people in the 1920s began to fight to reclaim rights, partly inspired by the African American movements of these times.