1857 killing of eleven British colonists by Indigenous Australians
The Hornet Bank massacre was the killing of eleven British settlers, which included eight members of the Fraser family, by a group of mostly Yiman Indigenous Australians.[1][page needed] The massacre occurred at about one or two o'clock in the morning of 27 October 1857 at Hornet Bank station on the upper Dawson River near Eurombah in central Queensland, Australia.[2] It has been moderately estimated that 150 Aboriginal people succumbed in subsequent punitive expeditions conducted by Native Police, private settler militias, and by William Fraser in or around Eurombah district. Indiscriminate shootings of "over 300" Aboriginal men, women, and children, however, were reportedly conducted by private punitive expedition some 400 kilometres eastward at various stations in the Wide Bay district alone.[3] The result was the near-extermination of the entire Yiman tribe and language group by 1858; this claim was disputed, however, and descendants of this group have recently been recognised by the High Court of Australia to be the original custodians of the land surrounding the town of Taroom.[1][page needed][4]
^ abReid, Gordon: Nest of Hornets: The Massacre of the Fraser Family at Hornet Bank Station, Central Queensland, 1857, and Related Events, Melbourne: Oxford University, 1982 ISBN 0-19-554358-0
^Queensland State Archive NSW,COL/57/4329 report from Land Commissioner Wm. H. Wiseman dated "Cockatoo station November 16th, 1857".
^Letter dated Maryborough 31 March 1858, Mitchell Library, Ref: A63 from George Dunmore Lang (1832 - 1875) to his uncle. Lang was in Gayndah in early Mar 1858 inspecting stations with the aim of land investments.
^Bruce Elder: Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1788, New Holland Publishers, 1998, p.94, ISBN 1-86436-410-6
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