Negative Interactions between Indigenous and European people

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  • Eurpeans held a range of views about Australia's Indigeous people.

  • A Nyungar was shot while taking potatoes from a settler's garden

  • Yagan had approached two shepherds he knew, asking for flour. When his back was turned one of them William keats, shot him

  • Yagans head was sent to England

  • 12 local stockman (11 of whom were ex-convicts) were on the hunt around the south wales town of Inverell for Indigenous people they suspected had stolen cattle

  • The Victorian Government set up a body of Native police

  • There was no European Law enforcement body in Gippsland

  • Yagan was buried in Everton Cemetery

  • small pox was declared eliminated fromt he world

  • Almost 165 years after being sent to England, Yagan's head was returned to Australia for a proper burial