Yagan (/ˈjeɪɡən/; 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.[1][2] The government offered a bounty for Yagan's capture, dead or alive, and a young settler, William Keats, shot and killed him. He is considered a legendary figure by the Noongar.[3][4]
After his shooting, settlers removed 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.[5] Over the years, the Noongar asked for repatriation of the head, both for religious reasons and because of Yagan's traditional stature. The burial site was identified in 1993; officials exhumed the head four years later and repatriated it to Australia. After years of debate within the Noongar community on the appropriate final resting place, Yagan's head was buried in a traditional ceremony in the Swan Valley in July 2010, 177 years after his death.[6]
^N. Green, Broken Spears: Aborigines and Europeans in the southwest of Australia, Perth p. 79. Also Hallam and Tilbrook, p. 333
^"Depositions: Taken Before the Lieutenant Governor and Executive Council at Perth". The Perth Gazette. 25 May 1833.
^Cite error: The named reference Colbung 1996 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Yagan". South West Aboriginal Land & Sea Council. 26 September 2012. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013.
^Aboriginal warrior Yagan is finally laid to rest after 170 years, Liverpool Echo, 12 July 2010
^Warrior reburied 170 years after death, Australian Geographic, 12 July 2010, archived from the original on 23 June 2013
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