Qualla: Waterloo Bay Massacre https://qualla.com/waterloo-bay-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/b/waterloo-bay-massacre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Waterloo Bay Massacre https://qualla.com/waterloo-bay-massacre Waterloo Bay Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/waterloo-bay-massacre/ Photo credit Diceman~commonswiki, Public domain. The cliffs at Waterloo Bay, near the small town of Elliston on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula, are beautiful in the way that remote coastal places often are -- windswept limestone dropping into cold water, the sky enormous overhead. But the Wirangu and Nauo peoples who have lived along this coast for thousands of years carry a different knowledge of this place. Their oral histories record that in late May 1849, European settlers drove Aboriginal men, women, and children over these cliffs in an act of punitive violence. The number who died remains uncertain. The most recent scholarship suggests tens or scores. For more than a century, the local settler community resisted acknowledging what happened here.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/b/waterloo-bay-massacre-wp/qfpb-waterloo-bay-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Waterloo Bay Massacre: A Peninsula on Fire https://qualla.com/waterloo-bay-massacre/ Photo credit William Denny, CC BY-SA 4.0. European settlers had arrived on the Eyre Peninsula only a decade earlier, establishing Port Lincoln in March 1839. The years that followed brought escalating violence between settlers and Aboriginal people as pastoral runs spread across traditional lands. The colonial government...

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/b/waterloo-bay-massacre-wp/qfpb-waterloo-bay-massacre-a-peninsula-on-fire.mp3 0:06 2 full Waterloo Bay Massacre: The Killings That Sparked the Massacre https://qualla.com/waterloo-bay-massacre/ Photo credit William Denny, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the late 1840s, tensions on the Eyre Peninsula reached a crisis. Several European settlers and their employees were killed by Aboriginal people in separate incidents -- among them James Fastings and John Jones, along with Mrs. Easton, whose body was found after she had been ki...

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/b/waterloo-bay-massacre-wp/qfpb-waterloo-bay-massacre-the-killings-that-sparked-the-massacre.mp3 0:06 3 full Waterloo Bay Massacre: What Happened at the Cliffs https://qualla.com/waterloo-bay-massacre/ Photo credit William Denny, CC BY-SA 4.0. The precise details of what occurred at Waterloo Bay remain contested in written records but consistent in Aboriginal oral tradition. The settler party confronted Aboriginal people on or near the cliffs. Some were shot. Others -- by multiple accounts -- were driven over the cliff...

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/b/waterloo-bay-massacre-wp/qfpb-waterloo-bay-massacre-what-happened-at-the-cliffs.mp3 0:06 4 full Waterloo Bay Massacre: The Long Refusal https://qualla.com/waterloo-bay-massacre/ Photo credit William Denny, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1970, the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders and the South Australian Aborigines Progress Association proposed building a memorial cairn on the cliffs at Waterloo Bay. The timing was deliberate -- it was to coincide with the bicenten...

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/p/b/waterloo-bay-massacre-wp/qfpb-waterloo-bay-massacre-the-long-refusal.mp3 0:06 5 full Waterloo Bay Massacre: Reckoning at Last https://qualla.com/waterloo-bay-massacre/ Photo credit William Denny, CC BY-SA 4.0. The silence did not hold. In October 2018, after years of community consultation and advocacy by the Wirangu people, a memorial was unveiled at Waterloo Bay. It stands where the cliffs meet the wind, looking out over the water where people died. The memorial's existence represent...

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