Talk:Calyute

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Did you know... that Calyute was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader who led a raid on Shenton’s Mill in Western Australia in 1834 for a half-tonne of flour?

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Effects of Settlement were slight is in error

This is in serious error for three reasons.

Firstly the arrival of Thomas Peel had been allocated Binjareb lands as his personal fiefdom, and he was actively seeking settlers to take control of Binjaeb lands.

Secondly he had established himself at the mouth of the Murray river, displacing Aboriginal people from their fish traps there, robbing them of an estimated one sixth of their annual sources of food.

Thirdly as Neville Green shows, there was a rapid depopulation of Aboriginal populations within the region, probably as a result of infecttious diseases, which led to claims of sorcery within the Aboriginal groups with associated payback attacks on those seen as responsible. Whadjuk people displaced from the Swan River were carriers of these illnesses. John D. Croft (talk) 04:37, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]