* Disclaimer, many of the exact numbers and dates were different across sites so the most common dates and numbers were used. In June 1838, and the following months later that year, the Aboriginal culture and Australia was severely impacted in many ways because of the Myall Creek Massacre. This was an incident that approximately twenty-eight men, women and children of Aboriginal culture were violently slaughtered for no reason but to kill. An estimated group of ten men (both convict and ex-convict) worked on a neighbouring station 50km away from Myall Creek. On June 10th these ten men, led by John Fleming rode to Myall Creek where they planned to kill a group of Aboriginals, this was for no reason at all but to ‘teach the blacks a lesson.” …show more content…
They were then led into a gully less than a kilometer away and only two boys escaped this. George Anderson (another convict who refused to join the massacre) was able to help these two boys escape. The men set up camp until later that night when the Wirrayaraay men arrived back at Myall Creek. They came back after hearing of the murders but were too late. When they reached the station, Mr. Anderson met them and told them to flee as he was unsure if the gang would come back. The gang took off that night but came back two days later where they set out to find the ten people they had missed. Later, these people were all found and killed too. Station manager, William Hobbs returned to the station a few days later where he found the headless bodies. He reported this to a neighbouring station owner- Thomas Foster who then told squatter Frederick Foot who rode to Sydney (approximately 300km from Myall Creek), to refer this case to the