Snow, Ice, and Death He gave everything for his tribe

Sacrificing the leader for the good of the tribe.
#flashfiction #superstition #aboriginalpeople #tribal
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#stone fish weir at Burnie. #Tasmania. Source Google Maps.

#stone #fishweirs, #Burnie. #Tasmania has been inhabited by #indigenous #aboriginalpeople over 42,000 years. They brought the #fishweir methods with them from mainland #Australia. Several 100 sites have been identified along is coastline dating from prehistory onwards. 1/6 #coastalhistory

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

#TheKillingCode: Details of sig. brutality to local #AboriginalPeople by a WA Settler Farmer in the mid 1800's are being removed from an historic diary ahead of publication. Entries are coded, so not understood by the public Should they be removed? #FarmingHistory
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“”It’s an assault on the #Aboriginalpeople. I don’t say that lightly [but] if u want to eradicate a people from the landscape, u start taking them away, u start destroy the landscape of their #culturalheritage, u attack their children or remove their children,” Dodson said.” #Auspol #SilentGenocide

James Cook is acclaimed as 'discovering Australia', but let's look at reality, one cannot take credit or discovering something if it had already been 'discovered' and inhabited by #AboriginalPeople for over 65,000 years before James Cook was even born or even set sail.

The Mapping of Massacres Place names can be damning evidence of colonial history. ...

#Australia #massacres #AboriginalPeople #murder #genocide Mapping historical encounters www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/map...