1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, I'm Eves and Welcome to This Day 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:12,239 Speaker 1: in History Class, a show that uncovers history one day 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: at a time. Today is June second, nineteen. The day 5 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: was June second, eighteen o two Aboriginal resistance leader Pimma 6 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: Boy was shot dead one are just before this day. 7 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: Pemma Boy led battles against European colonists in the colony 8 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,599 Speaker 1: of New South Wales who were attempting to state claims 9 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: on lands and resources in Australia. He's remembered as a 10 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: warrior who led guerrilla attacks on colonists where indigenous people 11 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: raised crops and farms and plundered livestock and property, and 12 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 1: he was known for being surprisingly resistant to bullet There 13 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: are not many confirmed facts about Pimmel Boy's life. He 14 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: was born around seventeen fifty and he was a digical 15 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: man from the Botany Bay area of Sydney. His name 16 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: came from the word pimal, which meant earth or clay. 17 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: He was described as having a speck in his left eye, 18 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: and its believes that he was a charity or a 19 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: clever man or doctor who could heal wounds one of 20 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: his feet had been hit with a club, and his 21 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 1: toes were permanently injured. That injury could have been purposeful 22 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: as a mark of his status as a healer by 23 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: the late eighteenth century. In the early nineteenth century, Europeans 24 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: had begun colonizing Australia and sending convicts there. Indigenous Australians 25 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: have been living there for thousands of years, and colonists 26 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: were up ending society by bringing in new government, religion, 27 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: and culture. Many Aboriginal people resisted the influx of colonists, 28 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: who took over land, brought disease and created competition over resources. 29 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: Pemma Boy was one of the Aboriginal people who fought 30 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: against the incursion of Europeans. Governor Arthur Philip had appointed 31 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: a convict name John McIntyre to hunt for game, but 32 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: Indigenous people were not too fond of McIntyre, as he 33 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: was said to have committed violent acts against them. He 34 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: allegedly wounded and killed several Indigenous people in his game hunts. 35 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: One day, Pemma Boy put a spear through the game shooter, 36 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: perforating his lung. McIntyre later died of his wounds, but 37 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: Philip did not believe that the attack was warranted as 38 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: McIntyre had not been armed at the time of the incident. 39 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: So the governor ordered an expedition of fifty marines carrying 40 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: hatchets and headbags to kill six Indigenous people at Botany 41 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: Bay and captured two. That expedition was not successful. Rumors 42 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:58,239 Speaker 1: circulated that John Caesar, who was perhaps the first Australian 43 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: bush ranger, had killed Pema Boy, but that was not 44 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: the case. Aboriginal people conducted raids for food or as 45 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: payback for colonists atrocities. Pemma Boy led a series of 46 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: raids against colonists. He led one at Prospect the Bigical 47 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 1: Bird Huts, stole crops and attacked travelers. He also led 48 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: a raid at the government farm at Tune Gabby, but 49 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: the Battle of Paramtta is perhaps the most notable conflict. 50 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: Pemma Boy and about a hundred Aboriginal warriors were chased 51 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: to the outskirts of Parameda by a group of armed 52 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: colonists and soldiers, but Pemma Boy's group began spearing soldiers 53 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: and soldiers opened fire on the Indigenous people. At least 54 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: five Indigenous people were killed. Pemma Boy was hit by 55 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: book shot and had some lodged in his head and 56 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: his body, and he was taken to the hospital, but 57 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: he recovered and broke himself out of the Paramida hospital, 58 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: leading to talk of his immortality. Soon after his escape, 59 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: he was seen on the George's River near Botany Bay. 60 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: On May one, eighteen o one, Governor Philip King issued 61 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: an order to shoot Indigenous people who were near Paramatta, 62 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: the George's River and Prospect Hill. Convicts who had joined 63 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: the Aboriginal side were outlawed and rewards were offered for 64 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: penmel boys, capture, or killing. The order laid out the 65 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: following rewards to a prisoner for life or fourteen years, 66 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: a conditional emancipation to a person already conditionally emancipated, a 67 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: free pardner, and a recommendation for a free passage to 68 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: England to a settler, the labor of a prisoner for 69 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 1: twelve months, to any other descriptions of persons, twenty gallons 70 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: of spirits and two suits of flops. Kim A boy 71 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: was shot dead and decapitated one are before June second, 72 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: eighteen o two. It's not known who killed the resistance leader, 73 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: though it's been sick guessed it that it was a 74 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: man named Henry Hacking. Pemma Boy's head was sent to 75 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: Sir Joseph Banks in London along with the letter from 76 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: Governor King. In the letter, King described Pemma Boy as 77 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: a terrible pest to the colony, but also a brave 78 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 1: and independent character. Where Pemma Boy's skull is today is unknown. 79 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,119 Speaker 1: I'm Eve Steff Coote and hopefully you know a little 80 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 1: more about history today than you did yesterday. If there 81 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: are any upcoming days in history that you'd really like 82 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: me to cover on the show, give us a shout 83 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: on social media at t D I h C podcast. 84 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: And if you really love history, there's another show that 85 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 1: I think you will like. It's called Unpopular and it's 86 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: a podcast that I host that is about people in 87 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: history who rebelled and dissented and challenge the status quo. 88 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: And it goes in and takes a look at how 89 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: we think about dissent and resistance today. Thanks again for 90 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: listening and we'll see you tomorrow. For more podcasts for 91 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: my Heart Radio, visit the I heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, 92 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.