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The main predator of emus today is the dingo, which was originally introduced by Aboriginals thousands of years ago from a stock of semi-domesticated wolves. Dingoes try to kill the emu by attacking the head. The emu typically tries to repel the dingo by jumping into the air and kicking or stamping the dingo on its way down.
Dingo attacks on humans are rare in Australia, and when they do occur are generally on young children and small teenagers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] However, dingoes are much more of a danger to livestock, especially to sheep and young cattle. [ 3 ]
The Emu War (or Great Emu War) [2] was a nuisance wildlife management military operation undertaken in Australia over the later part of 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus, a large flightless bird indigenous to Australia, said to be destroying crops in the Campion district within the Wheatbelt of Western Australia.
Mirabeau Lamar was the second President of the Republic of Texas from 1838 to 1841, preceded by Sam Houston. Mirabeau Lamar had a harsher policy towards Native Americans in Texas and signed two bills which escalated tensions in the region. The first bill was signed on December 21, 1838, which formed an 840-man regiment to protect the Northern ...
In 1932 many emus moved into farm territory in Western Australia, with the army called in to dispatch them in the so-called Emu War. Some attacks noted include in 1957 an emu charged a car, [ 15 ] in 1904 an emu attacked a dog's owner after the dog attacked it, [ 16 ] in 1873 an emu attacked children and a woman at Johnstone Park, Geelong . [ 17 ]
The Karankawa Indians: The Coast People of Texas. Archaeological and Ethnological Papers of the Peabody Museum; Vol. 1, No. 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Himmel, Kelly F. (1999). The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas, 1821-1859. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-0-89096-867-3.
The approximate location of Indian tribes in western Texas and adjacent Mexico, ca. 1600. Upstream on the Rio Grande from La Junta were the people who came to be called the Suma, and further upstream from El Paso northward were the Manso Indians. The Manso and the Suma appear to have had similar cultures, although it is uncertain whether they ...
If I fight, the whites will kill me. If I refuse to fight, my own people will kill me. Before the year was over, the Texas Cherokee would be forcibly removed from the settlements in the Cherokee War of 1839. Almost 600 Cherokee, mostly women and children, led by Chief Bowl, fought the Texans in two separate battles on July 15 and 16, 1839.