page_title: Myall Creek massacre
hierarchical_section_title: Myall Creek massacre
caption_attribution_description: English: ReColouration of Myall Creek Massacre scene from 177 year old lithograph - "Australian Aborigines Slaughtered by Convicts, by Phiz, The Book of Remarkable Trials, 1840; Chronicles of Crime V. II, 1841." for a Gamilaraay Surviving Descendants community education project.
context_page_description: The Myall Creek massacre involved the killing of at least twenty-eight unarmed Indigenous Australians by twelve colonists on 10 June 1838 at the Myall Creek near the Gwydir River, in northern New South Wales. After two trials, seven of the twelve colonists were found guilty of murder and hanged. One—the settler John Fleming—evaded arrest and was never tried and four were never retried following the not guilty verdict of the first trial.
context_section_description: The Myall Creek massacre involved the killing of at least twenty-eight  unarmed Indigenous Australians by twelve colonists on 10 June 1838 at the Myall Creek near the Gwydir River, in northern New South Wales. After two trials, seven of the twelve colonists were found guilty of murder and hanged. One—the settler John Fleming—evaded arrest and was never tried and four were never retried following the not guilty verdict of the first trial.
caption: Colourised lithograph depicting the Myall Creek massacre
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