Foreword -- Main participants in the Forrest River Affair -- Chronology of the Forrest River Affair -- Introduction -- Part I: prelude to the making of a myth: Ch. 1: Prelude to the massacre allegations: the Nulla Nulla and Marndoc Reserve patrols -- Ch. 2: The Royal Commission -- Part II: Ch. 3: The alleged missing: informants, rumours and Gribble's lists -- Ch. 4: The alleged missing and the tracking evidence -- Ch. 5 The alleged missing and the forensic evidence: some preliminary observations -- Ch. 6: The alleged missing and the forensic evidence: the expert testimony -- Ch. 7: The alleged missing and the forensic evidence: final observations -- Ch. 8: The case of Lumbia -- Ch. 9: Commissioner Wood's analysis of the police evidence: preliminary observations -- Ch. 10: Commissioner Wood's analysis of the police evidence: the police part testimony -- Ch. 11: The evidence is tested in court -- Part III: Gribble's imputed motive in the Forrest River affair -- Ch. 12: An imputed motive for Gribble's conduct -- Appendix 1: The St Jack memoir and other documentation concerning Regan and St Jack -- Appendix 2: Popular and academic commentary on the Forrest River affair -- Appendix 3: The Royal Commissioner's map
Summary
Questions the allegations by E. R. B. Gribble, local Protector of Aborigines and head of the Forrest River Mission, of the Forrest River massacre; also questions the findings of the Royal Commission into the alleged killing
Analysis
Aborigines
Cases (Law)
Evidence
Forest River Mission (WA)
History, 1901-1945
Homicide
Western Australia
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index
