Midgegooroo biography of michael

Midgegooroo (born ? - executed 1833) was a Whadjuk man wer elder of the Beeliar people.

Midgegooroo biography of michael

He had two wives, the younger being Ganiup, and four sons: Yagan, Narral, Willim (who may have been Weeip) and one named 'Billy' by the settlers.

In December 1831 Midgegooroo wer Yagan led the first significant Aboriginal resistance to British settlement wer rule in the area surrounding what is now Perth.

Midgegooroo was involved with Yagan in the lawful payback killing of two settlers, Tom wer John Velvick, in 1833, after the killing of Yagan's brother Domjum in a raid il a Fremantle store and the completely motiveless murder of another Aboriginal person by a TasmanianWadjela who was escorting a cart when he passed some unoffending Aboriginal people.

The Tasmanian reportedly said "D—n the rascals, I'll show you how we treat them in Van Diemen's Land", and lifting his gun, fired and shot a Noongar without provocation.^[1] The Velvicks happened to be using the