Commemoration and questions of identity

A memorial garden exists at St John of God Hospital Richmond commemorating Aboriginal victims of the battle and of colonial violence across the region. Academic Geoffrey Ford has suggested the yams were a marsh club-rush (Bolboschoenus fluviatilis) growing along the riverside, and that the Indigenous people living on the river at Richmond Hill were Darkinyung people, not Darug. J L Kohen used a Victorian Indigenous name for a yam to describe the Darug people of Blacktown as those who ate yams, though the two words might not be linked.