On this episode we talk to author Patrick Collins about Aboriginal resistance leader, Bussamari who was from the Mandandanji language group. The Mandandanji nation’s homeland is crossed by the Balonne and Maranoa rivers north of St George, and large creeks such as the Tchanning, Bungil, and Muckadilla (Upper Cogoon River) in south-central Queensland. In this episode, we yarn up about all the influence, leadership and history of Bussamari and talk to Patrick Collins about his book "Goodbye Bussam...
Jul 17, 2024•38 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast Frontier War Stories has returned, and in this episode we yarn up with the deadly Peter Jones from WINGA MYAMLY, to learn about the first sanctioned massacres to happen, known as the Appin Massacres. We look into this history, the reasoning and what this has meant to the Dharrawal people and the general community of Campbelltown. This episode of Frontier War Stories is part of a ten-part special series made with support from Koori Mail. The Voice of Indigenous Australia, Koori Mail is 100% Abori...
May 07, 2024•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode 35 is marking the anniversary of the Myall Creek Massacre which occurred on the 10th June 1838. Boe Spearim speaks to Richard Trudgen and Uncle Keith Munro. Richard Trudgen is the writer of the book Why Warriors Lay Down and Die and has been a pioneering figure in community development and education for near on 50 years. Keith Munro is the co-chair of the Myall Creek National Committee and is one of the organisers of this year’s anniversary commemoration taking place on the 11th of...
Jun 10, 2023•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this special episode celebrating the 3 year anniversary of Frontier War Stories, Boe speaks with Uncle Glen Miller about the monument to Butchulla warriors being installed on to commemorate Butchulla warriors. Read more Frontier War Stories is produced, written and hosted by Boe Spearim Additional editing support from Awesome Black The post Frontier War Stories – Uncle Glen Miller, Butchulla Elder – 3 Year Anniversary Episode first appeared on Awesome Black - First Nations Creatives . See omn...
Apr 24, 2023•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast In a special live recording from Avid Reader in Meanjin, Boe speaks with previous guest Ray Kerkhove at the launch of his book How They Fought published by Boolarong Press. Frontier War Stories is produced, written and hosted by Boe Spearim . Theme music by Mr Rhodes Additional support by Awesome Black You can support the continued creation of this podcast by supporting Boe through the AB Club The post Frontier War Stories Live with Ray Kerkhove from Avid Reader first appeared on Awesome Black -...
Apr 05, 2023•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode thirty two of Frontier War Stories, Boe speaks with Professor Lyndall Ryan. Professor Ryan is a historian of violence on the Australian colonial frontier specialising in the period 1788-1850 and the leader of the team behind the Colonial Frontier Massacres Map . Frontier War Stories is produced, written and hosted by Boe Spearim Additional editing support from Awesome Black The post Frontier War Stories – Professor Lyndall Ryan first appeared on Awesome Black - First Nations Creatives...
Jan 23, 2023•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode thirty one of Frontier War Stories, Boe yarns with film and television director, producer, and screenwriter Rachel Perkins , a Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman who’s new documentary for SBS: The Australian Wars explores the bloody wars fought between the colonial settlers and local tribes raged from the time the first land grants were allocated in 1792. The Australian Wars will be available on SBS ON DEMAND Frontier War Stories is produced, written and hosted by Boe Spearim Addition...
Sep 20, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Trailer to share online for Frontier War Stories. The post Frontier War Stories Trailer first appeared on Awesome Black - First Nations Creatives . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 28, 2022•47 sec•Transcript available on Metacast In episode thirty of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Uncle Rodney Dillon Palawa man from Tasmania and Amnesty International Australia’s Indigenous Rights Advisor. We yarn about place names and the normalisation of the colonisation of Australia. The post Uncle Rodney Dillon first appeared on Awesome Black - First Nations Creatives . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 28, 2022•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode twenty-nine of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Dr Mariko Smith who is a Yuin & Japanese museum curator, visual sociologist, historian and works at the Australian museum. This episode was recorded on the 26th of January 2022 on the IndigenousX twitter page. Boe and Mariko chat about the exhibition titled “Unsettled” at the Australian museum, the exhibition highlights Aboriginal resistance leaders, massacres, battles and much more. The post Dr Mariko Smith – Unsettle...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode twenty-eight of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with former Australian politician, archivist and local historian Michael Organ. Lieutenant James Cook, Admiral (First Governor) Arthur Phillip and Major General (Fifth Governor) Lachlan Macquarie are celebrated by many Australians but not all Aboriginal people share the same feeling for these three, click and listen to find out why. The post Michael Organ – Australia’s founding figures first appeared on Awesome Black - First Nations Creat...
Jan 12, 2022•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode Twenty Seven of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Ryan Stewart who is a history teacher and a PhD candidate from the University of Newcastle, the research he is doing is based on the Darkinjung resistance and conflict in the Central Coast of NSW. The post Ryan Stewart – The Darkinjung Resistance and Conflict first appeared on Awesome Black - First Nations Creatives . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Dec 13, 2021•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode Twenty Six of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Fred Leone, we chat about his great grandfather Garrinjamaji (King Peter) who survived three massacres and saved his wife who was kidnapped during one of the massacres. Fred and his siblings were told this story growing up by one of his nannas who is the daughter of Garrinjamaji (King Peter), later on in his life Fred got a hold of two books which mentioned his great grandfather. Those books are ‘Whitefella Comin’ by David ...
Nov 28, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode Twenty Five of Frontier War Stories Gamilaraay man Joshua Waters and Dr Mark Copland both from the Friends of Multuggerah yarn with host Boe about The Battle of Meewah. On the 12-13th September 1843, eagle chief warrior of the Jaggera tribe, Multuggerah, and the surrounding allied tribes led the masterful resistance now known as The Battle of Meewah (One Tree Hill) The post Frontier War Stories – Joshua Water and Dr Mark Copland – Battle of Meewah Commemoration first appeared on Aweso...
Sep 20, 2021•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode Twenty Four Boe yarns with Angus Murray Wiradjuri PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle. Since episode Six of FWS Angus has changed his approach to his PhD in this episode we find out that Angus is now focusing on tactics used by Aboriginal people in frontier conflict on his country the Wiradjuri nation. The post Frontier War Stories – Angus Murray – Wiradjuri Frontier Conflict first appeared on Awesome Black - First Nations Creatives . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...
Aug 18, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode Twenty Three Boe yarns with Dr Skye Krichauff about the Reconciling with the Frontier project which will develop a mapping tool that people can use to identify and learn about conflict sites between colonists and Aboriginal people. The project is focussing on research of conflicts between European settlers and Aboriginal people between 1836 and 1901. The project is about truth telling – bringing to light the atrocities that occurred against Aboriginal people here in South Australia. D...
Aug 14, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode Twenty Two Boe yarns with singer songwriter and teacher Paddy McHugh, we talk about a song he wrote titled Gins Leap. many years ago at the station I still work at I remember hearing a song for the first time with lyrics like this “On the Kamilaroi highway near the town of Boggabri There is a little truck stop there most travellers pass by But occasionally the weary or those who need to take a leak Will stop beside this spot by the name of Gins Leap, Now Gins Leap is a clifface ...
Aug 06, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode Twenty One Boe yarn with Professor Lyndall Ryan from the University of Newcastle in NSW. On the 10th of June 1838 just outside of what is now Bingara in Northern NSW a group of 10 convict stockmen, led by a squatter, rode onto Myall Creek Station and brutally massacred about 28 Gamilaraay People, mostly older men, women and children in an unprovoked and premeditated attempt to get them off land. This event is now known as the Myall Creek Massacre and, whilst only one of many Massacres...
Jul 30, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode Twenty of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns Libby Connors author of Warrior: A Legendary Leader’s Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier. Billy Barlow Gubbi Gubbi headman and resistance leader, was born in the 1820s, the decade when British officials authorised the invasion and occupation of what would become the city of Brisbane. At some point during the 1840s Billy Barlow had joined Dundalli and the Aboriginal men of Bribie Island in their fight against the Euro...
Apr 17, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode Nineteen Boe Yarn’s with historian Ray Kerkhove. We yarn about the many methods of communication Aboriginal people used while fighting on the frontier, Ray also tells us about some of the new interesting things he has learnt about Aboriginal resistance on the frontier. The post Frontier War Stories – Ray Kerkhove – Aboriginal Communication on the frontier first appeared on Awesome Black - First Nations Creatives . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Apr 14, 2021•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode Eighteen Boe Yarn’s with Goenpul Goori Uncle Dale Ruska about frontier conflict on Stradbroke and Moreton Island known as the battle of ’Narawai (Moongalba). The post Frontier War Stories – Uncle Dale Ruska – Battle of ’Narawai (Moongalba) first appeared on Awesome Black - First Nations Creatives . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Apr 11, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode Seventeen I yarn with Jimmy Kyle frontman for Punk Rock band Chasing Ghost Koori man from the Thungutti nation on the NSW mid-north coast. Chasing Ghost have recently released a powerful truth telling song titled “Summer” that tells the story of the 1856 Towel Creek Massacre. The post Frontier War Stories – Jimmy Kyle – 1856 Towel Creek Massacre first appeared on Awesome Black - First Nations Creatives . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 28, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode sixteen of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Dr. Chris Owen who is a historian and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History at the University of Western Australia. Dr Chris is the author of Every Mother’s Son is Guilty: Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905. The interview is broken up into a few parts, talking about the use of chains on Aboriginal people and native police in the Kimberley region, Jandamarra the Aboriginal warrior who put fear ...
Mar 13, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Fifteen Boe yarns with Lynley A. Wallis who is an Australian archaeologist and Associate Professor at Griffith University. The Queensland Native Mounted Police operated for over 50 years, from 1849 until 1904. It was organised along paramilitary lines, consisting of detachments of Aboriginal troopers led by white officers. It operated across the whole of Queensland and was explicitly constituted to protect the lives, livelihoods and property of settlers and to prevent (and punish) any Ab...
Mar 06, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode Fourteen of Frontier War Stories Boe Yarns with Dr Joseph Toscano author of Lest We Forget The Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner Saga, also national convenor of the Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner commemoration committee. At 8.00am on Tuesday the 20th of January 1842, over 5,000 people, a quarter of Victoria‟s white population, gathered at the outskirts of Melbourne crowding round the gallows erected on a small rise east of Swanston Street and north of La Trobe Street. The cr...
Mar 01, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode thirteen of Frontier War Stories is broken up into two parts, this is Part 2 of Dundalli Day. In Part 2 Boe yarns with Ray Kerkhove about the 5th of January 1855 the day Dundalli was was hung at a site which is now The Brisbane GPO on Queen Street. Ray Kerkhove is a professional historian, cultural researcher and writer. He is currently Historian-in-Residence at Noosa, and an occasional historian with the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (Dept of Architecture, University of Qld). ...
Feb 09, 2021•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode thirteen of Frontier War Stories is broken up into two parts, this is Part 1 of Dundalli Day. In Part 1 Boe yarns with Libby Connors about the 5th of January 1855 the day Dundalli was was hung at a site which is now The Brisbane GPO on Queen Street. Libby Connors is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Queensland. In 2015 Connors received the Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance for Warrior: A Legendary Leader’s Dramatic Life and...
Jan 21, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode twelve Boe yarns with Associate Professor from the University of Tasmania Kristyn Harman author of Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan, and Maori Exiles. As a result of the frontier wars fought across parts of Australia (and also at other British colonies’ frontiers), Indigenous men ended up being transported as convicts. They served their sentences at places including Van Diemen’s Land, Norfolk Island, and several of the penal islands in Sydney Harbour (Goat Island and Cockatoo ...
Sep 01, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode Eleven Boe yarns with Mark Dunn, author of The Convict Valley: the bloody struggle on Australia’s early frontier. The post Frontier War Stories – Mark Dunn – The Convict Valley first appeared on Awesome Black - First Nations Creatives . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 22, 2020•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast In episode Ten of Frontier War Stories, Boe yarns with Professor Lyndall Ryan who is an academic and historian from the University of Newcastle. We chat about Professor Lyndall Ryan’s earlier work which was on Frontier conflict in the 1820s and 1830s between Aboriginal people and British in New South Wales and Tasmania. The post Frontier War Stories – Lyndall Ryan – Aboriginal Resistance from Tasmania to New South Wales first appeared on Awesome Black - First Nations Creatives . See omnyst...
Jul 03, 2020•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
