Second Wiradjuri War Texts, Trove News Articles

Text of colonial era news articles related to the Second Wiradjuri War around the Murrumbidgee River.

These texts include anything that the search resulted in that seemed relevant to the unfolding of the war, to reconstruct the narrative of events. This includes, not only specific incidents of violence, but events such as the declaration of a police district, or estimates of the population at the time. Some texts may include different version of the same events. The aim of the the geolocation of this text is a step in a larger process to identify specific incidents as part of a seperate map of incidents, and to consider some context. News articles also include many other place names and events not in the area of study.

This only includes texts in colonial newspapers available through Trove. It doesn't include other sources which may describe other events such as government and police reports, colonists journals and letters, or Wiradjuri oral history.

These are results from various combinations of search terms: combinations of black police murrumbidgee tumut yass gundagai narrandera lachlan goulburn war burn kill massacre slaughter stole.

This is a collection of news articles accessed via Trove searches, at the National Library of Australia. Sources are cited within the text.

The source text is out of copyright. This map may be used freely if used respectfully to Wiradjuri people, and on the understanding that it is incomplete and may contain errors.

These texts include descriptions of colonial violence and racist attitudes and language of the time. This is OCRed text that hasn't been cleaned so contains errors. Geolocation of texts is also error prone. Only the geolocations especially relevant to the Murrumbidgee area will be corrected.