Dalaipi

Dalaipi (c. 1795 – c. 1863) was an Aboriginal Australian elder, details of whose life and traditions are preserved in Thomas Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland (1904). According to Petrie, Dalaipi was the head man of the North Pine tribe, living in what is now the Shire of Pine Rivers, north of Brisbane. Quotes Before the whitefellow came, we wore no dress, but knew no shame, and were all free and happy; there was plenty to eat, and it was a pleasure to hunt for food. Then when the white man came among us, we were hunted from our ground, shot, poisoned, and had our daughters, sisters, and wives taken from us. Could you blame us if we killed the white man? If we had done likewise to them, would they not have murdered us? Quoted in Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland, ed. C. Petrie (1904), Ch. 21 External links Category:Indigenous Australians