The Aboriginal people of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, known as the Gunai/Kurnai people, fought against the European invasion of their land. The technical superiority of the Europeans' weapons gave them an absolute advantage. It is extremely difficult to be certain about the real death toll as so few records still exist or were even made at the time. Diseases introduced from the 1820s by European sealers and whalers also caused a rapid decline in Aboriginal numbers. The following list was compiled from such things as letters and diaries^[1]. East Gippsland Shire is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ... Emblems: Pink heath (floral)Weedy Seadragon (Aquatic) helmeted honeyeater (bird) Leadbeaters possum (faunal) Motto: Peace and Prosperity Slogan or Nickname: Garden State, The Place To Be, On The Move Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Const. ... The Gunai or Kurnai nation is one of the Aboriginal nations of Australia. ... The Gunai or Kurnai nation is one of the Aboriginal nations of Australia. ...

1840 - Nuntin- unknown number killed by Angus McMillan's men

1840 - Boney Point - "Angus McMillan and his men took a heavy toll of Aboriginal lives"

1841 - Butchers Creek - 30-35 shot by Angus McMillan's men

1841 - Maffra - unknown number shot by Angus McMillan's men.

1841 - Maffra - unknown number shot by Angus McMillan's men

1842 - Skull Creek - unknown number killed

1842 - Bruthen Creek - "hundreds killed"

1843 - Warrigal Creek - between 60 and 180 shot by Angus McMillan and his men

1844 - Maffra - unknown number killed

1846 - South Gippsland - 14 killed

1846 - Snowy River - 8 killed by Captain Dana and the Aboriginal Police

1846-47 - Central Gippsland - 50 or more shot by armed party hunting for a white woman supposedly held by Aborigines; no such woman was ever found.

1850 - East Gippsland - 15-20 killed

1850 - Murrindal - 16 poisoned

Gippsland squatter Henry Meyrick wrote in a letter home to his relatives in England in 1846: Portrait of McMillan from memorial cairn Angus McMillan (14 August 1810-18 May 1865), was an explorer and pioneer pastoralist in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. ... Portrait of McMillan from memorial cairn Angus McMillan (14 August 1810-18 May 1865), was an explorer and pioneer pastoralist in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. ... Portrait of McMillan from memorial cairn Angus McMillan (14 August 1810-18 May 1865), was an explorer and pioneer pastoralist in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. ... Maffra is a town in Victoria, Australia. ... Portrait of McMillan from memorial cairn Angus McMillan (14 August 1810-18 May 1865), was an explorer and pioneer pastoralist in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. ... Warrigal Creek is a creek and area in Victoria, Australia. ... Portrait of McMillan from memorial cairn Angus McMillan (14 August 1810-18 May 1865), was an explorer and pioneer pastoralist in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. ... Maffra is a town in Victoria, Australia. ... John Longstaffs Gippsland, Sunday night, February 20th, 1898, depicting the Red Tuesday bushfires that ravaged Gippsland For the electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, see Division of Gippsland. ... The Snowy River below McKillops Bridge The Snowy River is a major river in south-eastern Australia. ... John Longstaffs Gippsland, Sunday night, February 20th, 1898, depicting the Red Tuesday bushfires that ravaged Gippsland For the electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, see Division of Gippsland. ... The white woman of Gippsland, or the captive woman of Gippsland, was a European woman rumoured to have been held against her will by Aboriginal people in the Gippsland region of Australia in the 1840s. ... John Longstaffs Gippsland, Sunday night, February 20th, 1898, depicting the Red Tuesday bushfires that ravaged Gippsland For the electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, see Division of Gippsland. ... This article is about occupying land without permission. ...

The blacks are very quiet here now, poor wretches. No wild beast of the forest was ever hunted down with such unsparing perseverance as they are. Men, women and children are shot whenever they can be met with … I have protested against it at every station I have been in Gippsland, in the strongest language, but these things are kept very secret as the penalty would certainly be hanging … For myself, if I caught a black actually killing my sheep, I would shoot him with as little remorse as I would a wild dog, but no consideration on earth would induce me to ride into a camp and fire on them indiscriminately, as is the custom whenever the smoke is seen. They [the Aborigines] will very shortly be extinct. It is impossible to say how many have been shot, but I am convinced that not less than 450 have been murdered altogether.^[2]

See Also

• List of Australian Aboriginal massacres
• White woman of Gippsland

This is a list of massacres of Australian Aboriginal people, for discussion of the historical arguments around these massacres see the articles on: the History Wars and the Black arm band view of history plus the section on impact of European settlement in the Indigenous Australians article. ... The white woman of Gippsland, or the captive woman of Gippsland, was a European woman rumoured to have been held against her will by Aboriginal people in the Gippsland region of Australia in the 1840s. ...

References

1. ^ Gardner, P.D.. (2001) , Gippsland massacres: the destruction of the Kurnai tribes, 1800-1860, Ngarak Press, Essay, Victoria ISBN 1-875254-31-5
2. ^ http://www.quadrant.org.au/php/article_view.php?article_id=963