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For the group of people in South America, see Yahgan people.

Yagan (c. 1795–11 July 1833) was a Noongar warrior who played an important part in early indigenous Australian resistance to European settlement and rule in the area of Perth, Western Australia.^[1]

Yagan was the son of Midgigoroo, one of the elders of the tribe who lived in the Perth area.^[1] Yagan was blamed for spearing cattle near the Swan River. There were not many cattle in the new colony and food was scarce. Yagan's taking of the settlers animals and food supplies was seen as a very serious crime. After a European was killed, the military started a search for Yagan. He was found after four months and sent to Carnac Island. He escaped after six weeks. One of the soldiers who had got to know him on Carnac Island, compared him to William Wallace.^[1]

Yagan's brother was killed in April 1833 while trying to steal flour from a cart. Yagan, Midgigoroo and several others attacked another cart and killed the drivers.^[1] They were declared outlaws, which meant they had

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Yagan was born circa 1795 and died sometime in July 1833. He was a Noongar leader and resistance fighter during the early years of the Swan River Colony. In the conflict that ensued, Yagan was both feared and admired by Europeans as a patriot fighting for his land. In today’s Noongar community, Yagan is an iconic figure in the fight for Noongar rights and recognition. The reburial of Yagan’s head was celebrated on the 10th July 2010.

Yagan was a Whadjuk Noongar man. He gained notoriety for his courage and daring in resisting the European settlement of Noongar land. His father was Midgegooroo, another influential Noongar elder often mentioned in The Perth Gazette. Yagan had three brothers; Narral, Billy and Willim (who may also be Weeip).[i] Midgegooroo had more than one wife, and Yagan’s mother may have been Ganiup or an older woman, whose name is not known.[ii]

Between 1831 and 1833, Yagan appeared regularly in the Perth Gazette and the published journals and extracts of the Advocate General George Fletcher Moore. Tall and imposing, Yagan had a R

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Yagan

Australian Noongar warrior (c. 1795 – 1833)

For other uses, see Yagan (disambiguation).

Yagan (; c. 1795 – 11 July 1833) was an Aboriginal Australian warrior from the Noongar people. Yagan was pursued by the local authorities after he killed Erin Entwhistle, a servant of farmer Archibald Butler. It was an act of retaliation after Thomas Smedley, another of Butler's servants, shot at a group of Noongar people stealing potatoes and fowls, killing one of them. The government offered a bounty for Yagan's capture, dead or alive, and a young settler, William Keats, shot and killed him. Yagan is considered a legendary figure by the Noongar.

After his shooting, settlers cut off Yagan's head to claim the bounty. Later, an official sent it to London, where it was exhibited as an "anthropological curiosity" and eventually given to a museum in Liverpool. It held the head in storage for more than a century before burying it with other remains in an unmarked grave in Liverpool in 1964. Over the years, the Noongar asked for repatriation of the head, both for religious