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Aboriginal Australian warrior of the late 19th century

This article is about the Aboriginal warrior of the 1800s.

Jandamarra biography of abraham

For the victim of a 1996 attack, see Tjandamurra O'Shane.

Jandamarra or Tjandamurra (c. 1873–1 April 1897), known to British settlers as Pigeon,^[1][2] was an Aboriginal Australian man of the Bunuba people who led one of many organised armed insurrections against the British colonisation of Australia.

Initially employed as a tracker for the police, he became a fugitive when he was forced to capture his own people. He led a three-year campaign against police and British settlers, achieving legendary status for his hit and run tactics and his abilities to hide and disappear.

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Jandamarra was eventually killed by another tracker at Tunnel Creek on 1 April 1897. His body was buried by his family at the Napier Range, where it was placed inside a boab tree. Jandamarra's life has been the subject of two novels, Ion Idriess's Outlaws of th