The Queensland Native Mounted Police were a violent organisation set up in the mid 1800s to systematically wipe out the Aboriginal population from Queensland.  

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Reflection Questions

1. Explain the two different perspectives about the Native Mounted Police were printed in the newspapers of the time.
2. What were some of the motives of the Queensland Government in setting up the Native Mounted police?
3. What is one of the main issues in terms of finding balanced evidence for primary sources of the time?
4. Explain why Aboriginal troopers were the preferable as troopers for the tracking police.
5. How do the naming practices for the troopers represent a white washing of indigenous culture?
6. Why would the majority of the people writing about the massacres and killings use euphemisms instead of direct language?

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Archaeology on the Frontier

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