Citation

Richards J. History Compass 2008; 6(4): 1024-1036.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00536.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The European colonisation of Queensland largely depended on the armed and mounted men of the Native Police – a brutal force which killed many Indigenous people on the frontier. Detachments of mounted Aboriginal troopers led by European officers would surround Aboriginal camps and fire into them at dawn, killing men, women and children. The bodies were often burned to destroy the evidence.