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An Australian Aboriginal warrior from the Noongar tribe played a key part in early indigenous Australian resistance to British settlement and rule in the area of Perth, Western Australia. After he led a series of burglaries and robberies across the countryside that killed white settlers, the government offered a bounty for his capture, dead or alive. A young settler shot and killed him. Yagan’s execution figured in Western Australian folklore as a symbol of the unjust and sometimes brutal treatment of the indigenous peoples of Australia by colonial settlers. Famous throughout Australia, Yagan is considered a hero by the Noongar people.

Settlers removed Yagan’s head to claim the bounty. Later an official took it to London, England, where it was exhibited as an “anthropological curiosity”. A museum held the head in storage for more than a century before burying it with other remains in an unmarked grave in 1964. Over the years, the Noongar asked for repatriation of the head, both for religious reasons and because of Yagan’s traditional stature in the culture. In 1993 the burial site was identified. Four years later officials exhumed the head and repatriated it to Australia. Since 1997, the indigenous people of the Perth area argued over how to treat Yagan’s head in a respectful way.

Recently the remains of 19th-century Aboriginal warrior Yagan have been laid to rest in western Australia, nearly 180 years after he was killed and his severed head was displayed in a British museum. The private ceremony held Saturday by the Noongar tribe coincided with the opening of the Yagan Memorial Park in Swan Valley, just outside of Perth. “The Yagan Memorial Park is a fitting tribute to the life, struggles and death of Yagan and to the memory of all Aboriginal people who suffered and died in support of their land, culture and heritage,” West Australian Premier Colin Barnett said in a statement.

After years of petitions by the Aboriginal community, Yagan’s head was exhumed and returned to Australia in 1997. Yagan Reburial Committee chairman Richard Wilkes said it had been a long process to reunite the warrior’s remains. The exact location of Yagan’s body isn’t known.

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An Australian Aboriginal warrior from the Noongar tribe played a key part in early indigenous Australian resistance to British settlement and rule in the area of Perth, Western Australia. After he led a series of burglaries and robberies across the countryside that killed white settlers, the government offered a bounty for his capture, dead or alive. A young settler shot and killed him. Yagan’s execution figured in Western Australian folklore as a symbol of the unjust and sometimes brutal treatment of the indigenous peoples of Australia by colonial settlers. Famous throughout Australia, Yagan is considered a hero by the Noongar people.

Settlers removed Yagan’s head to claim the bounty. Later an official took it to London, England, where it was exhibited as an “anthropological curiosity”. A museum held the head in storage for more than a century before burying it with other remains in an unmarked grave in 1964. Over the years, the Noongar asked for repatriation of the head, both for religious reasons and because of Yagan’s traditional stature in the culture. In 1993 the burial site was identified. Four years later officials exhumed the head and repatriated it to Australia. Since 1997, the indigenous people of the Perth area argued over how to treat Yagan’s head in a respectful way.

Recently the remains of 19th-century Aboriginal warrior Yagan have been laid to rest in western Australia, nearly 180 years after he was killed and his severed head was displayed in a British museum. The private ceremony held Saturday by the Noongar tribe coincided with the opening of the Yagan Memorial Park in Swan Valley, just outside of Perth. “The Yagan Memorial Park is a fitting tribute to the life, struggles and death of Yagan and to the memory of all Aboriginal people who suffered and died in support of their land, culture and heritage,” West Australian Premier Colin Barnett said in a statement.

After years of petitions by the Aboriginal community, Yagan’s head was exhumed and returned to Australia in 1997. Yagan Reburial Committee chairman Richard Wilkes said it had been a long process to reunite the warrior’s remains. The exact location of Yagan’s body isn’t known.

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The Remains of Yagan are reburied in Australia

Yagan statue. Heirisson Island, Perth, Western Australia. The statue was sculpted in 1984 by Robert Hitchcock.

Author-Nachoman-au, Date 17 December 2005(2005-12-17)

An Australian Aboriginal warrior from the Noongar tribe played a key part in early indigenous Australian resistance to British settlement and rule in the area of Perth, Western Australia. After he led a series of burglaries and robberies across the countryside that killed white settlers, the government offered a bounty for his capture, dead or alive. A young settler shot and killed him. Yagan’s execution figured in Western Australian folklore as a symbol of the unjust and sometimes brutal treatment of the indigenous peoples of Australia by colonial settlers. Famous throughout Australia, Yagan is considered a hero by the Noongar people.

Settlers removed Yagan’s head to claim the bounty. Later an official took it to London, England, where it was exhibited as an “anthropological curiosity”. A museum held the head in storage for more than a century before burying it with other remains in an unmarked grave in 1964. Over the years, the Noongar asked for repatriation of the head, both for religious reasons and because of Yagan’s traditional stature in the culture. In 1993 the burial site was identified. Four years later officials exhumed the head and repatriated it to Australia. Since 1997, the indigenous people of the Perth area argued over how to treat Yagan’s head in a respectful way.

Recently the remains of 19th-century Aboriginal warrior Yagan have been laid to rest in western Australia, nearly 180 years after he was killed and his severed head was displayed in a British museum. The private ceremony held Saturday by the Noongar tribe coincided with the opening of the Yagan Memorial Park in Swan Valley, just outside of Perth. “The Yagan Memorial Park is a fitting tribute to the life, struggles and death of Yagan and to the memory of all Aboriginal people who suffered and died in support of their land, culture and heritage,” West Australian Premier Colin Barnett said in a statement.

After years of petitions by the Aboriginal community, Yagan’s head was exhumed and returned to Australia in 1997. Yagan Reburial Committee chairman Richard Wilkes said it had been a long process to reunite the warrior’s remains. The exact location of Yagan’s body isn’t known.

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