Pindjarup

The Bindjareb, Binjareb, Pindjarup or Pinjareb are an Indigenous Noongar people that occupy part of the South West of Western Australia.

[citation needed] Pindjarup tribal estates extended over an estimated 1,800 square miles (4,700 km2), taking in Pinjarra, Harvey and the Leschenault Estuary.

Western long-necked tortoises, black swans, ducks, and migratory birds formed an important part of their diet.

[4] The Whadjuk themselves had had numerous conflicts with encroaching white settlers, who had occupied land on which one of their basic foods, yams, grew.

[4] In April 1834 Calyute raided George Shenton's windmill, pinned its owner down after luring him out with an offer of baked damper, and hauled off a substantial quantity, 444 kg (979 lb), of flour.

[4] A detachment managed to capture Calyute, who was bayoneted, together with two other men, Yedong and Monang, some days later, and he was flogged with 60 lashes in Perth's main street, and then imprisoned for a year, being released on 10 June 1834.

[4][a] On Yedong's release he organised an ambush on the 24 July on what Peel regarded as his property, killing a private, Hugh Nesbit and wounding a former soldier, having lured them into a trap after promising them help in retrieving a lost horse.

Tactics had some positioned on either side of the river and others advancing on an 800-metre (870 yd) front, with a forward party pressing on horseback into the camp.