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Depredations

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Depredations has 57 facts recorded in Dontopedia across 39 references, with 8 live disagreements.

57 facts·41 predicates·39 sources·8 in dispute

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Other facts (57)

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57 facts
PredicateValueRef
Caused byHunger Starvation[5]
Caused byAboriginals Lost Hunting Grounds[12]
Caused byBlacks Passing[14]
Caused byLost Hunting Grounds[23]
Caused byloss of hunting grounds[24]
Sometimes Followed bymurder of a white man[6]
Sometimes Followed byMurder of White Man[9]
Sometimes Followed byMurder of White Man[20]
Sometimes Followed byMurder of White Man[21]
Committed byBlacks Cooktown[4]
Committed byBlacks[31]
Committed byAboriginal People[34]
IncludesCattle Spearing[15]
IncludesRobberies[39]
IncludesProperty Destruction[39]
Followed byMurder of White Man[7]
Followed byMurder of White Man[8]
Refers toAborigines Spearing Cattle[15]
Refers toProvision Robberies[32]
Caused by Loss of Hunting Groundsnull[16]
Caused by Loss of Hunting GroundsDepredations[26]
ByNaturally Wild and Needy Tribe[18]
ByAboriginal People[26]
TriggersRations Cease[30]
TriggersNative Police Sent[30]
Axiological Negativegreat[1]
Resulted inGoods Stolen and Tills Rifled[2]
Involved EntryPlaces[2]
Variousnull[3]
Regularly Led toViolent European Response[6]
Led toViolent European Response[10]
Recently Occurredmany months ago[11]
PresupposesAboriginal Agency[12]
Deontically Justifies PatrolsNative Police[13]
Synonymous WithOutrages[13]
Occurred inDistrict[17]
Only One Since Last October byParty From Bloomfield[17]
Are Caused byAboriginal Tribe[19]
ThreatenResidents[19]
Inhibited European Progressjust as effectively[22]
Seem Relatively Unimportantcompared with pastoral and mining frontiers[22]
Framed As CriminalAboriginal Resistance[25]
Resulted FromAboriginal People Losing Hunting Grounds[25]
Presupposed As Realtrue events[27]
Deontically WarrantsPolice Response[28]
Occurred Recentlyrecently[29]
Implicature Midnight RobbersStealthy Aboriginal Actions[33]
Reported byF M Thompson[34]
Evaluated As AnnoyingNmp Event 12608[35]
Occur NightlyNmp Event 12608[35]
Viewed NegativelyNmp Event 40798[36]
With Impunitynull[37]
Attributed toBarron Valley Aboriginal Group[38]
Is Principal TopicCairns Conversation[39]
Perpetrated byBlacks[39]
Is Engrossing ThoughtCairns Residents[39]
Is Conversation TopicCairns Residents[39]

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null
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References (39)

39 references
  1. [1]Beche De Mer1 fact
    ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/beche-de-mer
  2. [2]John Davis2 facts
    ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/john-davis
  3. ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/north-shore-full
  4. ctx:genes/brackenridge-cairns-1880-1900/trove-new/130397673_Thursday-19-February-1885-cooktown-monday-february-16
  5. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/metadata-reingest/009-www-publications-qld-gov-au-dataset-30d27611-1da0-4b34-b175-434686e794f8-resource-814b5907-e9d2-485f-abe7--869e5422ee95
  6. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/tlcmap-frontier-massacre-dataset-lead
  7. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/focused-mowbray-spring-creek-map-transcript-exact-map-extraction-spring-creek-massacre-early-1880s
  8. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/focused-mowbray-spring-creek-map-transcript-bennett-walker-exact-extraction-bones-skulls-shed-massacre-language
  9. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/focused-mowbray-spring-creek-map-transcript-regional-map-extraction-native-police-camps-and-massacre-sites-across-cairns-rai
  10. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/tlcmap-dataset-2509-bama-bulmba-series
  11. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/qsa-index-port-douglas-mowbray-children-line-qsa-index-exact-line-inspector-isley-port-douglas-patrols-request
  12. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/qsa-index-port-douglas-mowbray-children-line-qsa-index-exact-line-isley-form-a-native-police-detachment
  13. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/qsa-index-port-douglas-mowbray-children-line-qsa-index-exact-line-isley-district-singularly-free-from-outrages
  14. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/qsa-anu-richards-port-douglas-record-identifier-qsa-index-port-douglas-progress-association-fortnightly-patrols-surrounding-hill
  15. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/true-port-douglas-mowbray-qsa-target-qsa-target-81-4601-port-douglas-progress-association-mowbray-police-camp-patrols
  16. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/qsa-index-term-hits-saltwater-creek-mossman-daintree
  17. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/qsa-index-term-hits-children-boys-girls-rations
  18. [18]Protector Roth1 fact
    ctx:genes/trove-cooktown/protector-roth
  19. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/qsa-home-secretary-focused-h-wason-telegram-rationing-aboriginals-four-months-5847903634a2
  20. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/tlcmap-colonial-massacres-port-douglas-mowbray-spring-creek-0521060ad471
  21. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/tlcmap-publicdataset-2509-mowbray-native-police-massacre-geography-a889778c9c74
  22. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/anu-native-police-focused-col-a437-6952-port-douglas-board-original-record-trail-b9515fa1d4ea
  23. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-archive/checkpoint-c2eaec3bfb0a
  24. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/correction-itm847168-85-6845-johnny-corporal-punishment-not-cardwell-41d1a97513ba
  25. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/clean-target-itm847168-col-a437-85-6952-port-douglas-cooke-district-only-58c72ad265e3
  26. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-archive/correction-a616f416e3f4
  27. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/qld-publications-clean-full-row-itm847168-col-a437-85-6952-ea0e0099ebd2
  28. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/richard-leach-mossman-3078
  29. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/thornborough-rations-children-batch-3113
  30. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/daintree-reynolds-rations-labour-batch-3117
  31. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-0160-eid-10775
  32. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-0808-eid-21353
  33. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1148-eid-36957
  34. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1287-eid-38630
  35. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-0250-eid-12608
  36. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1399-eid-40798
  37. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1710-eid-51280
  38. ctx:genes/rosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2247-eid-62329
  39. ctx:research/blucher-uhr/trove--trove-cooktown-all--native-police-maryborough--saturday 6 november 1880--186929491--cairns-october-23

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