Talk:Aboriginal tracker

Jimmy James

Just a note that Mitamirri (referred to in the text), who also goes by the name of Jimmy James, is the father-in-law of the Jimmy James listed as a famous tracker, rather than the same person. Confused? I am. --Roisterer (talk) 13:53, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

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NPOV

This appears to be a whitewashed version, pun not intended.

The article said The excellent tracking skills of these Aboriginal Australians were advantageous to settlers in finding food and water and locating missing persons, capturing bushrangers and dispersing other groups of Indigenous peoples.. I changed that last bit to dispersing groups of other Indigenous peoples.

Australian native police says As late as the 1920s, native constables, or trackers as they were called by then, aided white officers and stockmen in massacres of Aboriginal people, a notorious example being the Forrest River massacre. Polygnotus (talk) 21:51, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Are there specific sources that can be used to demonstrate due weight for other ideas? Thebiguglyalien (talk) 23:28, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

I don't have time and energy to dig really deep in this topic right now, but if you do you may wanna check out stuff like The Secret War: A True History of Queensland’s Native Police by Jonathan Richards and Conspiracy of Silence by Timothy Bottoms. I'll ping @TarnishedPath: who knows a lot of stuff about stuff. Polygnotus (talk) 23:48, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

I'm not sure how you got the impression that I'm knowledgeable on this subject. I'm really not. TarnishedPath^talk 00:01, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Your username occurs thrice on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australia because of 3 Australia-related articles. Polygnotus (talk) 00:06, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Ah, I understand. A lot of my content creation is on Australian biographies, particularly in politics and fringe movements. When it comes to indigenous history though, I haven't read much about it. TarnishedPath^talk 00:14, 6 April 2026 (UTC)