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On 14 February 1779, English explorer Captain James Cook was violently killed as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief of the island of Hawaii, after the native Hawaiians had stolen a longboat from Cook's expedition.
Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.
Painting, Death of Captain Cook by eyewitness John Webber The Sahlins–Obeyesekere debate is an academic controversy in anthropology about the death of the British explorer James Cook, particularly whether the native Hawaiians believed him to be Lono, an akua "deity" associated with fertility, agriculture, rainfall, music and peace.
Aftermath of the 1861 Cullin-La-Ringo massacre in which 19 settlers were killed by Aboriginal people, the deadliest attack on settlers in the frontier wars Fighting near Creen Creek, Queensland in September 1876. The frontier wars were particularly bloody and bitter in Queensland, owing to its comparatively large Indigenous population. This ...
Four Aboriginal spears that were taken to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago were returned Tuesday to Australia's Indigenous community at a ceremony in Cambridge University. The ...
It was intended that the cairn would be part of a national mourning campaign by Aboriginal people, timed to coincide with the bicentenary of the landing of Captain James Cook at Botany Bay in New South Wales in 1770. John Moriarty, the deputy president of SAAPA, said that "the Elliston massacre was part of the history of the West Coast ...
The two Aboriginal warriors opposing Cook's landing at Kamay (Botany Bay) Little is documented of Cooman's life. He is mainly known through the oral histories of some of his descendants who state that Cooman was the older of the two Gweagal men who opposed the landing of James Cook and his crew at Kamay (later named Botany Bay) in 1770.
Company men had killed another 12 Aboriginal people only days earlier. [70] [71] [72] Historian Keith Windschuttle has disputed the numbers and other aspects of the event. [73] 1828. On 6 December elements of the 40th Regiment together with two constables, Danvers and Holmes, surrounded a group of Aboriginal people during the night at Tooms ...