Two Aboriginal men wounded by a European shooting quail, 6 December 1837
Two Aboriginal men lying in the grass were wounded by pellets shot by an Englishman hunting quail. As they expressed it, ‘Burkonna mayoo wokkareen’ – ‘the white man was stupid’. The two men recovered.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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Sources
- Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier
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Two Aboriginal men wounded by a European shooting quail, 6 December 18376 Dec 1837 — AdelaideTwo Aboriginal men lying in the grass were wounded by pellets shot by an Englishman hunting quail. As they expressed it, ‘Burkonna mayoo wokkareen’ – ‘the white man was stupid’. The two men recovered.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)Source: Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier