Massacre at Warlupany - East Kimberley
Jack Britten ��� Warlupany
Jack Britten told Helen Ross: 'And Warlupany, I never tell you this for Warlupany, just the other side of Violet Valley. That's the other place they bin catch em again, big mob of people.
They reckon 'oh lightning knocking em now, they shooting them everywhere.' Some fella come up cry with that dead body, he lay top of that dead bodies again, all that. Just other side of Violet Valley. Bamboo we call it, Bamboo Creek. Just off Koondooloo River, well Spring Creek now, right up at head of it, by the hills. That hill come around right round close up la Violet Valley. End of the river. Some people bin getting shot there, everywhere. They don't know whats coming. They didn't know what to get away or just���[end]' (Jack Britten cited in Ross and Bray, 1989, p 16).
Jack Britten told Helen Ross: 'And Warlupany, I never tell you this for Warlupany, just the other side of Violet Valley. That's the other place they bin catch em again, big mob of people.
They reckon 'oh lightning knocking em now, they shooting them everywhere.' Some fella come up cry with that dead body, he lay top of that dead bodies again, all that. Just other side of Violet Valley. Bamboo we call it, Bamboo Creek. Just off Koondooloo River, well Spring Creek now, right up at head of it, by the hills. That hill come around right round close up la Violet Valley. End of the river. Some people bin getting shot there, everywhere. They don't know whats coming. They didn't know what to get away or just���[end]' (Jack Britten cited in Ross and Bray, 1989, p 16).
Notes:
CorroborationRating: **
LanguageGroup: Worla, Kitja
Victims: Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People
VictimsDead: 10
CorroborationRating: **
LanguageGroup: Worla, Kitja
Victims: Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People
VictimsDead: 10
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Massacre at Warlupany - East Kimberley1 Jan 1890 – 31 Dec 1899 — Warlupany - East Kimberley — massacreJack Britten ��� Warlupany
Jack Britten told Helen Ross: 'And Warlupany, I never tell you this for Warlupany, just the other side of Violet Valley. That's the other place they bin catch em again, big mob of people.
They reckon 'oh lightning knocking em now, they shooting them everywhere.' Some fella come up cry with that dead body, he lay top of that dead bodies again, all that. Just other side of Violet Valley. Bamboo we call it, Bamboo Creek. Just off Koondooloo River, well Spring Creek now, right up at head of it, by the hills. That hill come around right round close up la Violet Valley. End of the river. Some people bin getting shot there, everywhere. They don't know whats coming. They didn't know what to get away or just���[end]' (Jack Britten cited in Ross and Bray, 1989, p 16).