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Cooktown Blacks

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Cooktown Blacks has 84 facts recorded in Dontopedia across 21 references, with 5 live disagreements.

84 facts·76 predicates·21 sources·5 in dispute

Mostly:fought pitched battle against(3), exists as group(3), killed(2)

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Inbound mentions (42)

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foughtBetweenFought Between(2)

presupposesExistenceOfPresupposes Existence of(2)

wasSpearedByWas Speared by(2)

advocatesRightsForAdvocates Rights for(1)

aimToExterminateAim to Exterminate(1)

allegedlyMassacredBlacksAllegedly Massacred Blacks(1)

allowsUndisturbedBlacksAllows Undisturbed Blacks(1)

areAboriginalAre Aboriginal(1)

betweenTribesBetween Tribes(1)

concernsAboriginalPeopleConcerns Aboriginal People(1)

deonticMoreRightDeontic More Right(1)

dependOnBlacksDepend on Blacks(1)

essentializesEssentializes(1)

evaluatesNegativelyEvaluates Negatively(1)

evaluatesPositivelyEvaluates Positively(1)

evaluatesUsefulEvaluates Useful(1)

experiencedWithExperienced With(1)

foughtPitchedBattleAgainstFought Pitched Battle Against(1)

impliesExistenceOfImplies Existence of(1)

isSadlyPrevalentIs Sadly Prevalent(1)

livesWithLives With(1)

mightBeSafelyEntrustedMight Be Safely Entrusted(1)

participant1Participant1(1)

participantsOneParticipants One(1)

partOfGroupPart of Group(1)

perpetratorsPerpetrators(1)

presupposesOngoingBlackViolencePresupposes Ongoing Black Violence(1)

presupposesRightsOfPresupposes Rights of(1)

presupposesTribalAffiliationsPresupposes Tribal Affiliations(1)

recordsThatRecords That(1)

removedRemoved(1)

requestedRemovalRequested Removal(1)

shouldProvideForShould Provide for(1)

teleologicallyDependOnTeleologically Depend on(1)

tookHuntingGroundsFromTook Hunting Grounds From(1)

tookLandFromTook Land From(1)

urgedToDriveUrged to Drive(1)

wasSpearedWas Speared(1)

wereRunDownWere Run Down(1)

Other facts (84)

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84 facts
PredicateValueRef
Fought Pitched Battle AgainstAllied M Ivor Normanby Tribes[1]
Fought Pitched Battle AgainstAllied Mcivor Normanby Tribes[1]
Fought Pitched Battle AgainstAllied M Lvor Normanby Tribes[1]
Exists As Groupaboriginal tribe[1]
Exists As Grouptrue[4]
Exists As Grouptrue[9]
KilledM Burke Cattle[2]
KilledChinaman Near Lower Palmer[3]
Supervised byMayor of Cooktown[2]
Supervised byInspector Murray[2]
Use Kangaroo Word forBig Toe[14]
Use Kangaroo Word forThumb[14]
Must Leave Town Beforedark[14]
Must Leave Town Beforedark[16]
Utilised forClearing Endeavour River[1]
Sorry to Learn AboutBlacks Activity[2]
Feasted onM Burke Cattle[2]
Paid Visit toM Burke Selection[2]
Located onAnnan[2]
Roam SuburbsCooktown[2]
Provide Services toCooktown Residents[2]
Preferred OverEuropan Servants[2]
Pick Up ScrapsCooktown[2]
Found Decent byAlderman Talbot[2]
Hypocritical to ExpelCooktown Residents[2]
AreAboriginals[2]
Brought in byCooktown People[2]
Considered ContemptibleAlderman Talbot[2]
Parade StreetsCooktown[2]
Ontologically Original OwnersCooktown Land[2]
Not DangerousAlderman Talbot[2]
Few Crimes byCooktown[2]
Cultural ContextIndigenous Australian tribes[1]
Allied WithM Lvor Tribe[1]
Contrast WithCooktown Gins[3]
Exist in Large Numbersover 100[3]
MurderedChinaman Near Byerstown[3]
SpearedChinaman Palmerville[2]
Affiliated WithCooktown[4]
Perpetrator ofSecond Murder[4]
CallPeter Botte Mountain[5]
Possibly More Amenable toCivilisation[6]
Act AsScavengers[6]
Do Odd JobsHouses Cooktown[6]
Habitually PatrolCooktown[6]
In Habit of Associating WithNorth Shore Lepers[6]
Exhibiting AttitudeOffensive Attitude[6]
Committing DepredationsVarious Depredations[6]
Becoming NuisanceIntolerable Nuisance[6]
Evaluated As IntolerableNuisance[6]
Causing Fears ofDisease Dissemination[6]
Possibly More Amenable to Civilisationnull[6]
Are AboriginalCooktown Blacks[7]
Caused Disturbance AmongCattle[7]
Committed DepredationsSandown[8]
Speared PersonsTwo Cooktown Boys[9]
Honesty Sobriety and ChastityBear Favourable Comparison With Chinese Japs Malays and Whites[10]
Remain UndisturbedDuring Dry Season[11]
Exist in Numbers{}[11]
Not Very Numerous{}[11]
Driven IntoBarren Mountains[11]
Constantly on Verge ofStarvation[11]
Cause Regular LossHostility Losses[11]
Revenge onWhites[11]
Spear Horses and Cattle{}[11]
Are Very Daring{}[11]
No Excuse to Congregate Outskirtstrue[12]
Now Leave Before Darktrue[13]
Pronounce TodayKangaroo Word[14]
CalledCooktown Harbour[14]
Majority Camp onNorth Shore[14]
Formed TribeCocoboothan Tribe[14]
Suffer From Opium Evilprevalent among both sexes[14]
Gave Name to FlindersMinys Name[14]
Current Population Around100 within 10-mile radius[14]
Will Be Well When Leaving Townstrue[14]
Call Peter BotteNumbal-burroway[15]
Honesty Sobriety Chastity Bears Favourable Comparison WithChinese Japs Malays[17]
Compares Favourably toWhites[17]
Suffer FromNatural and Educational Disabilities[17]
Requested Own Exclusiontrue[18]
Sobriety No Trouble Even30 40 in Townnull[19]
Must Leave Before Darkleave before dark[20]
Policy Kept Out of Townshipblanket distribution shifted to Cape Bedford/Eight-mile/Bloomfield 1903 to keep blacks out of Cooktown (Roth 1902)[21]

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utilisedFortrove-cooktown/north-shore-cooktown
ex:clearing-endeavour-river
sorryToLearnAbouttrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:blacks-activity
feastedOntrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:m-burke-cattle
killedtrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:m-burke-cattle
paidVisitTotrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:m-burke-selection
locatedOntrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:annan
roamSuburbstrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:cooktown
provideServicesTotrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:cooktown-residents
preferredOvertrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:europan-servants
pickUpScrapstrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:cooktown
foundDecentBytrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:alderman-talbot
hypocriticalToExpeltrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:cooktown-residents
aretrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:aboriginals
supervisedBytrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:mayor-of-cooktown
supervisedBytrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:inspector-murray
broughtInBytrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:cooktown-people
consideredContemptibletrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:alderman-talbot
paradeStreetstrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:cooktown
ontologicallyOriginalOwnerstrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:cooktown-land
notDangeroustrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:alderman-talbot
fewCrimesBytrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:cooktown
foughtPitchedBattleAgainsttrove-cooktown/north-shore-cooktown
ex:allied-m-ivor-normanby-tribes
culturalContexttrove-cooktown/north-shore-cooktown
Indigenous Australian tribes
existsAsGrouptrove-cooktown/north-shore-cooktown
aboriginal tribe
foughtPitchedBattleAgainsttrove-cooktown/north-shore-cooktown
ex:allied-mcivor-normanby-tribes
alliedWithtrove-cooktown/north-shore-cooktown
ex:m-lvor-tribe
foughtPitchedBattleAgainsttrove-cooktown/north-shore-cooktown
ex:allied-m-lvor-normanby-tribes
contrastWithtrove-cooktown/cingalese
ex:cooktown-gins
existInLargeNumberstrove-cooktown/cingalese
over 100
murderedtrove-cooktown/cingalese
ex:chinaman-near-byerstown
killedtrove-cooktown/cingalese
ex:chinaman-near-lower-palmer
spearedtrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
ex:chinaman-palmerville
existsAsGrouptrove-cooktown/mcivor-river
true
affiliatedWithtrove-cooktown/mcivor-river
ex:cooktown
perpetratorOftrove-cooktown/mcivor-river
ex:second-murder
calltrove-cooktown/mauritius-queensland
ex:peter-botte-mountain
possiblyMoreAmenableTotrove-cooktown/north-shore-full
ex:civilisation
actAstrove-cooktown/north-shore-full
ex:scavengers
doOddJobstrove-cooktown/north-shore-full
ex:houses-cooktown
habituallyPatroltrove-cooktown/north-shore-full
ex:cooktown
inHabitOfAssociatingWithtrove-cooktown/north-shore-full
ex:north-shore-lepers
exhibitingAttitudetrove-cooktown/north-shore-full
ex:offensive-attitude
committingDepredationstrove-cooktown/north-shore-full
ex:various-depredations
becomingNuisancetrove-cooktown/north-shore-full
ex:intolerable-nuisance
evaluatedAsIntolerabletrove-cooktown/north-shore-full
ex:nuisance
causingFearsOftrove-cooktown/north-shore-full
ex:disease-dissemination
possiblyMoreAmenableToCivilisationtrove-cooktown/north-shore-full
null
areAboriginalbrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/234907626_Friday-7-June-1889-wired-whispers
ex:cooktown-blacks
causedDisturbanceAmongbrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/234907626_Friday-7-June-1889-wired-whispers
ex:cattle
committedDepredationsrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/catchup-archive-downloads-batch-033
ex:sandown
existsAsGroupbrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/123047738_Tuesday-3-March-1891_COOKTOWN-Monday-March-2
true
spearedPersonsbrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/123047738_Tuesday-3-March-1891_COOKTOWN-Monday-March-2
ex:two-cooktown-boys
honestySobrietyAndChastitybrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/123755795_Saturday-17-February-1894_THE-BLACKS-OF-NORTH-QUEENSLAND
ex:bear-favourable-comparison-with-chinese-japs-malays-and-whites
remainUndisturbedbrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/13406679_Tuesday-29-January-1878_OUR-BRISBANE-LETTER-JANUAR-26
ex:during-dry-season
existInNumbersbrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/13406679_Tuesday-29-January-1878_OUR-BRISBANE-LETTER-JANUAR-26
{}
notVeryNumerousbrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/13406679_Tuesday-29-January-1878_OUR-BRISBANE-LETTER-JANUAR-26
{}
drivenIntobrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/13406679_Tuesday-29-January-1878_OUR-BRISBANE-LETTER-JANUAR-26
ex:barren-mountains
constantlyOnVergeOfbrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/13406679_Tuesday-29-January-1878_OUR-BRISBANE-LETTER-JANUAR-26
ex:starvation
causeRegularLossbrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/13406679_Tuesday-29-January-1878_OUR-BRISBANE-LETTER-JANUAR-26
ex:hostility-losses
revengeOnbrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/13406679_Tuesday-29-January-1878_OUR-BRISBANE-LETTER-JANUAR-26
ex:whites
spearHorsesAndCattlebrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/13406679_Tuesday-29-January-1878_OUR-BRISBANE-LETTER-JANUAR-26
{}
areVeryDaringbrackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/13406679_Tuesday-29-January-1878_OUR-BRISBANE-LETTER-JANUAR-26
{}
noExcuseToCongregateOutskirtsrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-archive-text-loops318-327-batch-1
true
nowLeaveBeforeDarkrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/loops388-397/archive-text-loop-388-loop388-dev-fromthepage-com-qldfrontierconflict-correspondence-1879-qs-f8ed9e8982
true
pronounceTodayrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20770734
ex:kangaroo-word
useKangarooWordForrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20770734
ex:big-toe
calledrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20770734
ex:cooktown-harbour
mustLeaveTownBeforerosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20770734
dark
useKangarooWordForrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20770734
ex:thumb
majorityCampOnrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20770734
ex:north-shore
formedTriberosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20770734
ex:cocoboothan-tribe
sufferFromOpiumEvilrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20770734
prevalent among both sexes
gaveNameToFlindersrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20770734
ex:minys-name
currentPopulationAroundrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20770734
100 within 10-mile radius
willBeWellWhenLeavingTownsrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20770734
true
callPeterBotterosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20771513
Numbal-burroway
mustLeaveTownBeforerosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/meston-1896-page7-cape-bedford-cooktown-women-children
dark
honestySobrietyChastityBearsFavourableComparisonWithtrove-cooktown/protector-roth
ex:chinese-japs-malays
comparesFavourablyTotrove-cooktown/protector-roth
ex:whites
sufferFromtrove-cooktown/protector-roth
ex:natural-and-educational-disabilities
requestedOwnExclusionrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/aiatsis-annual-report-northern-protector-aboriginals-1899
true
sobrietyNoTroubleEven30-40InTownrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/aiatsis-annual-report-chief-protector-aboriginals-1904
null
mustLeaveBeforeDarkrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/fromthepage-qsa6826-cooktown-exclusion-cape-bedford-3221
leave before dark
policyKeptOutOfTownshipclaims/session/default
blanket distribution shifted to Cape Bedford/Eight-mile/Bloomfield 1903 to keep blacks out of Cooktown (Roth 1902)

References (21)

21 references
  1. ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/north-shore-cooktown
  2. [2]Beche De Mer21 facts
    ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
  3. [3]Cingalese4 facts
    ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/cingalese
  4. [4]Mcivor River3 facts
    ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/mcivor-river
  5. ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/mauritius-queensland
  6. [6]North Shore Full11 facts
    ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/north-shore-full
  7. ctx:genes/brackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/234907626_Friday-7-June-1889-wired-whispers
  8. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/catchup-archive-downloads-batch-033
  9. ctx:genes/brackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/123047738_Tuesday-3-March-1891_COOKTOWN-Monday-March-2
  10. ctx:genes/brackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/123755795_Saturday-17-February-1894_THE-BLACKS-OF-NORTH-QUEENSLAND
  11. ctx:genes/brackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/13406679_Tuesday-29-January-1878_OUR-BRISBANE-LETTER-JANUAR-26
  12. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-archive-text-loops318-327-batch-1
  13. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/loops388-397/archive-text-loop-388-loop388-dev-fromthepage-com-qldfrontierconflict-correspondence-1879-qs-f8ed9e8982
  14. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20770734
  15. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/trove-nla-news-article20771513
  16. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/meston-1896-page7-cape-bedford-cooktown-women-children
  17. [17]Protector Roth3 facts
    ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/protector-roth
  18. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/aiatsis-annual-report-northern-protector-aboriginals-1899
  19. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/aiatsis-annual-report-chief-protector-aboriginals-1904
  20. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/fromthepage-qsa6826-cooktown-exclusion-cape-bedford-3221
  21. [21]Default1 fact
    ctx:memory/claims/session/default

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