Nulungu Insights
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Non-refereed article
Publication Date
31-3-2017
Abstract
The Archaeology of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland project, jointly led by Nulungu research fellow Dr Lynley Wallis, is a long-overdue exploration into the nature of frontier invasion. Several of our team members have worked in Queensland for many decades and, in every Aboriginal community in which we’ve worked, stories are told about the ‘killing times’ or the ‘war’, as community members call the period when the Native Mounted Police (NMP, also referred to as the ‘Native Police’) were operating. Many community members have asked us over the years to record their stories about the massacres that took place, or have shown us places associated with the police camps or the massacre sites, and often told us that they would like to know more about what happened. These requests eventually led to the archaeologists on this project coming together, talking with key Aboriginal people and communities, and developing a research project to address their interests — the project described in this paper is the result.
Recommended Citation
Wallis, L.A., Cole, N., Burke, H., Barker, B., Lowe, K., Davidson I., & Hatte, E. (2017). Rewriting the history of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland (Nulungu Insights 3). Nulungu Research Institute. https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_insights/3/
