• Cowits was Western Australia's first Aboriginal policeman, and was a member of a number of early exploratory expeditions. Cowits came from the York area...
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    escaped horses. In 1863, he joined the first aboriginal assistant policeman Cowits to accompany Henry Maxwell Lefroy on his expedition east of York to the...
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  • John Drummond conveyed a message to Cowan via Cowits. Cowits was about 16 at the time. Cowan thought Cowits was very efficient and recommended that he be...
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    elements often are designed to appear in the same sight picture, known as cowitnessing, as the primary optical sights. Fixed sights are sights that are not...
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  • 1777–1852) – wife of Bungaree and designated Aboriginal 'Queen of Sydney' Cowits (c.1832–1868) Western Australia's first Indigenous policeman, and a member...
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    magistrate of York and Beverley William Cowan (1854–1940) — resident magistrate Cowits (c.1832–1868) — first Aboriginal assistant at the York Police Station Les...
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    thing ... What is next? We can't eat chicken? We can't eat meat?" Larry Cowit, vice president of Madison Avenue Furs, mused: "There has to be a line,...
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  • to Aboriginal children and taught four of them the alphabet, including Cowits. In April 1841, the "indefatigable" Barrow devised an ambitious plan to...
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    that Drummond went drinking at the Kings Head Hotel with native policeman Cowits and Tommy the native mail carrier, and did not report or charge anyone....
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  • Henry Landor on an expedition, accompanied by 10 year old aboriginal boy, Cowits or Kowitch to translate. They crossed the Hotham River and went on to discover...
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