Yagan

Yagan Yagan was born around 1795, the son of a respected aboriginal elder, Midgeroroo, of the Nyoongah people. He lived in the south west region of Western Australia.  For the first nine months of settlement at the Swan River, things were great between the settlers and natives. As Aboriginal tribes realized that they liked the look of the colonies thoughts, they began to thieve and kill livestock and the food supplies were nowhere to be found by the settlers. Gradually the settlers became aware that the attacks along the Swan River were led by a native aboriginal leader, named Yagan. Due to the deaths of many settlers in Yagan’s attacks, a reward was offered to find him (Yagan) dead or alive. As Yagan was found, he was known as a threat among the white community which caused him to be beheaded. Yagan’s head was taken to London where it was on exhibition as an anthropological curiosity. It spent over 100 years in storage at a museum in London before being buried in an unmarked grave in 1964. Yagan’s death has been passed into Western Australia as a symbol of the unjust and cruel treatment of the indigenes people of Australia.By Amber Brooks. The Noongars (Yagan’s people) ate kangaroo, bush tucker,emu, quandong jam or relish, bush tomatoes, witchetty grub paté and bush honey. The Noongars wore kangaroo skin capes (called bookas or bwokkas). Yagan wore feathers held by a band around his head, he also had dark skin and hair. Did you know the word ‘Noongar’ (Yagan’s people) can be translated to English as ‘human being?’ He was just thirty-eight when he died and  was killed by William and James Keates. By Mairead Chapman. Yagan an aborigianal leader of the nyungar people in western Australia was born in 1795 and played a really important part in the indigenous Australian resistance to the British settlement own the area of Perth still in western Australia. Next he led a whole stack of attacks in which alot of white settles where put to rest, a bounty was offered for his capture dead or alive. His two white brothers, james and William keats sadly shot him while they shared a meal together yagans young death has passed into Western Australia folklore as symbol of the unjust and sometimes brutal treatment of the indigenous people of Australia by colony settlers. Famous throughout Australia, he is considered a really special and a hero by the noongar people. Yagans head was taken off and taken to London, where it was placed in a exhibited as an ‘’anthropological curisical’’ .Today people all over the world come to see yagans head.By Nikki Martin.