Forrest River Massacres, The

WEST AUSTRALIANA / ABORIGINAL

• 253 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.

• Account of the events that led to the Forrest River massacre of 1926 and the Royal Commission that followed; account of the frontier violence and earlier massacres in the region; efforts of Ernest Gribble to obtain justice.

Pictorial photographic covers, b/w illust. title-page, ack., map of Kimberley region, b/w plcts. & text, maps, plan, epilogue, endnotes, index. In 1926, some person or persons on that fateful patrol did kill a great number of men, women, and children. The bodies were incinerated and the fragments of bone and teeth left in the ashes were scattered. ABORIGINAL STUDIES pp. 253 #0716R/0120/270923

• Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley
• Massacres — Western Australia — Kimberley
• Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Kimberley — Treatment
• Forrest River massacre
• Religions – Christianity – Missions
• Race relations – Violent – Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. – To 1900
• Kimberley (W.A.) — History
• Oombulgurri (WA Forrest East Kimberley SD52-10)