Indigenous Australian Warrior: Yagan Indigenous Warrior

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Yagan was an indigenous Australian warrior from the noongar people who lived in the South west region of Western Australia. Which is Perth now. He was the son of Midgeroroo. He was born on 1795 in western Australia and died on the 11 July 1833 in Belhus. He was buried on Everton Cemetery, Liverpool.
The relationship between Yagan who was part of aboriginals and British people was very complicated. Yagan was 35 years old in 1829 when British settlers landed in the area and established the Swan River Colony. For the first 2 years of the colony the relations between settlers and Noongars were generally friendly, as time went pass there was starting to get tension and the aboriginals and British were not that friendly because they stated having

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