With the new police force patrolling the area, the border could no longer be so easily crossed.

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"You're exploiting the traditional enmities that might exist between groups and deliberately playing them off against each other. Of course, it doesn't have any real entertainment value; the story and the characters are impossible to care about, and most of the scenes are dragged out beyond all reason. Recruitment began immediately, and the North-West Mounted Police was created. "I can't think of what he was thinking about when he joined, or when he was stolen. "There's only one reason that the Native Police were there — to kill Aboriginal people and to facilitate the theft of land," he says.The Native Police killed 24,000 Indigenous people across the state, according to one Vince Harrigan is a traditional owner for the Balnggarrawarra people in far north Queensland.When he was growing up, he heard stories about what the Native Police did to their people. "Ms Sullivan's son Lance believes his great-grandmother Ruby was forced to become Eglinton's mistress. "It wasn't a very good thing what they did, but I reckon you wouldn't wish that on anyone," he says.Ms Sullivan says her family's connection to Ernest Eglinton "is not an embarrassment". "These young men were trying to make something of themselves in these new circumstances.

"Fellow archaeologist Bryce Barker, also a chief investigator on the research project, agrees it's "totally unequivocal what their role was".

"I think she did it to survive, and for her family to survive. "The Native Police was the institution that was doing a lot of the kidnapping of Aboriginal children after massacres and giving them to settlers to be domestics or pastoral labourers. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. "All of this rings true with Ms Ellwood, whose ancestor Jack was a Native Police trooper for more than 20 years.

It was Australia's longest-running Native Police.It was governed by white officers who commanded detachments of about six or seven Indigenous troopers. A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.