Aboriginal Australian warrior of the late 19th century
This article is about the Aboriginal warrior of the 1800s. For the victim of a 1996 attack, see Tjandamurra O'Shane.
Jandamarra
Born
c. 1873
Died
April 1, 1897 Tunnel Creek, Western Australia
Place of burial
Napier Range
Allegiance
Bunuba
Years of service
1894-1897
Battles/wars
Australian frontier wars
Jandamarra or Tjandamurra (c. 1873—1 April 1897), known to European settlers as Pigeon,[1][2] was an Aboriginal Australian man of the Bunuba people who led one of many organised armed insurrections against the European colonisation of Australia. Initially employed as a tracker for the police, he became a fugitive when he was forced to capture his own people. He led a three-year campaign against police and European settlers, achieving legendary status for his hit and run tactics and his abilities to hide and disappear. Jandamarra was eventually killed by another tracker at Tunnel Creek on 1 April 1897. His body was buried by his family at the Napier Range, where it was placed inside a boab tree. Jandamarra's life has been the subject of two novels, Ion Idriess's Outlaws of the Leopold (1952) and Mudrooroo's Long Live Sandawarra (1972), a non-fiction account based on oral tradition, Jandamurra and the Bunuba Resistance, and a stage play.
^Pedersen, Howard. Jandamarra (1870–1897). National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 16 June 2020. This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, (MUP), 1990.
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