This is a provisional map of Australian wars and resistance movements from 1788 to the 1930s. It was created using computational 'clustering' methods based primarily on massacres, and checked against historical evidence and secondary sources and some Indigenous knowledge. It was produced in response to a century of demands for recognition of these wars and resistance, from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The methodology to produce the map was developed after 8 years of consultative research into Colonial Frontier Massacres, during the Historical Frontier Violence ARC grant, which was overseen by an Indigenous steering committee, and which included Aboriginal academics. The methodology has been presented without objection to Indigenous forums and in yarns with no outright objection and with feedback and suggestions that have been responded to and included. This map is meant only as a beginning and to prompt collaborative research, done the right way, into each of these wars and resistance movements. Massacres are only part of the story, and more events will be added over time. We hope also to identify hundreds of named and thousands of unnamed people in these wars. This work is supported by a collective of more than 50 historians and Indigenous people. As we learn more this map may change.

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