Windradyne biography of mahatma

This is a non-fiction book based on historical events from the Second World War and on events in the life of one significant Aboriginal Australian, Reg Saunders.

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Because of my personal history, and because of my identity as part of the Aboriginal diaspora, I began by studying law, where I learned of.

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr, nonviolence is an evolving praxis Some of this was violent (such as resistance by Pemulwuy, Windradyne.

Aboriginal warriors (such as Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Windradyne, for peoples' movements are to be led by elite, male, Mahatma figures.

Because of my personal history, and because of my identity as part of the Aboriginal diaspora, I began by studying law, where I learned of..

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The plaque, beside a Wiradjuri burial mound at Brucedale, was erected by the Bathurst Historical Society in 1954, to commemorate the resting place of aboriginal leader Windradyne who died in 1829.

The bronze plaque incorrectly states his death as 1835.

Aboriginal resistance leader Windradyne, also known as Saturday, was a northern Wiradjuri man of the upper Macquarie River region in central-western New South Wales. Emerging as a key protagonist in a period of Aboriginal-settler conflict later known as the `Bathurst Wars`, in December 1823 `Saturday` was named as an instigator of clashes between Aborigines and settlers after his family was massacred which culminated in the death of two convict stockmen at Kings Plains.

He was arrested and imprisoned at Bathurst for one month; it was reported that six men and a severe beating with a musket were needed to secure him.

Mortally wounded in a tribal fight on the Macquarie River, Windradyne