Escapees from Australian Detention - Escapees from New South Wales Detention, Escapees from Queensland Detention (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Escapees From New South Wales Detention, Escapees From Queensland Detention, Escapees From South Australian Detention, Escapees From Victoria (Australia) Detention, Escapees From Western Australian Detention, Yagan, Ronald Ryan, Moondyne Joe, Arnold Sodeman, Keith Faure, Gregory David Roberts, Brenden Abbott, Captain Thunderbolt, Darcy Dugan, James Beauregard-Smith, Edwin Eastwood. Excerpt: Yagan (pronounced; rhymes with pagan) (c. 1795 11 July 1833) was a Noongar warrior who 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 attacks in which white settlers were killed, a bounty was offered for his capture dead or alive, and he was shot dead by a young settler. Yagan's death has passed into 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, he is considered a hero by the Noongar people. Yagan's head was removed and brought to London, where it was exhibited as an "anthropological curiosity." It spent over a century in storage at a museum before being buried in an unmarked grave in 1964. In 1993 its location was identified, and four years later it was exhumed and repatriated to Australia. Since then, the issue of its proper reburial has become a source of great controversy and conflict amongst the indigenous people of the Perth area. To date, the head remains unburied. A member of the Whadjuk Noongar people, Yagan belonged to a tribe of around 60 people whose name, according to Robert Lyon, was Beeliar. Lyon's information is not entirely reliable, however, and it is now thought that the Beeliar people may have been a... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=406910