This post I do today I do with great respect to Yagan and the Noongar people of WA. I mean no disrespect to any living or past people. I post this historical information not to anger anyone but just to point out our history with white contact. It is our turn to take up the challenge of saving our culture, not with sticks and guns but with our minds, our education and sharing. To be able to move forward as strong and deadly people we need to lead by example. To have a future you must of had a past ! Yagan (c. 1795 – 11 July 1833) was an Indigenous Australian warrior. From the Noongar people, he played a key part in early resistance to British settlement and rule in the area surrounding what is now Perth, Western Australia. After he led a series of raids across the countryside, in which white settlers were killed, the government offered a bounty for his capture, dead or alive. A young settler, William Keats, subsequently shot and killed him. Yagans execution figures in Aboriginal folklore as a symbol of the unjust and sometimes brutal treatment of the indigenous peoples of Australia by colonial settlers. He is considered a hero by the Noongar. After his shooting, settlers removed Yagans 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 reasons and because of Yagans traditional stature in the culture. The burial site was identified in 1993, with officials exhuming the head four years later and repatriating it to Australia. After years of debate within the Noongar community on the appropriate final resting place, Yagans head was buried in a traditional ceremony in the Swan Valley in July 2010, 177 years after his death. Info from Wikipedia and local knowledge.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:49:20 +0000
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