Phil Fontaine

Phil Fontaine

male, 65 years old
university of manitoba, Indian Claims Commission, Kahkewistahaw First Nation, Larry Phillip (Phil) Fontaine, Manitoba, Canada, Assembly of Manitoba Chief…Aboriginal peoples in Canada, aboriginal
Larry Phillip (Phil) Fontaine, OM, (born September 20, 1944) is an Aboriginal Canadian leader. He is currently serving his third term as National...

Bennelong

male, deceased (1813)
indigenous australian, Arabanoo, Yemmerrawanie, Division of Bennelong, Australian Aboriginal kinship, Port Jackson…aboriginal
Bennelong (c. 1764 - 3 January 1813) was a senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal (Koori) people of the Port Jackson area, at the time of the first...
Dudley George

Dudley George

male, deceased (1995)
ontario provincial police, dudley do-right, Aboriginal conflicts in Canada, Anthony O'Brien "Dudley" George, aboriginal land claims, Ipperwash Crisis…Aboriginal peoples in Canada, aboriginal
Anthony O'Brien "Dudley" George was an Ojibwa protestor who was shot and killed by Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Kenneth Deane (who was later...
Minnie Pwerle

Minnie Pwerle

female, deceased (2006)
indigenous australian, Australian, Australian Aboriginal artist, artist, aboriginal, dreaming…Australian Aboriginal languages
M. Pwerle (pronounced Pearl) (born c. 1910, at Utopia Station, was an Australian Aboriginal artist. Her country was Atnwengerrp, (pronounced...
Mick Dodson

Mick Dodson

male, 59 years old
Australian indigenous rights activist, indigenous australian, broome, Yawuru, Katherine, Northern Territory, Broome, Western Australia…aboriginal
New Australian of the Year Professor Mick Dodson has called for a national conversation about changing the date of Australia Day. I think he has a...
Kathleen Petyarre

Kathleen Petyarre

female
Australian, Australian Aboriginal artist, northern territory, artist, museum of contemporary art, aboriginal
Kathleen Petyarre (born circa 1940) is an eminent Australian Aboriginal artist, known for her paintings displaying a refined layering technique...
Dorothy Napangardi

Dorothy Napangardi

female, 53 years old
indigenous australian, Australian, aboriginal, Salt on Mina Mina, Tanami Desert, Mina Mina
Dorothy Napangardi (b. 1956) is a prolific Australian Aboriginal artist from Mina Mina and one of around 3,000 Warlpiri speakers who live in or are...
Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy

male
Roman Catholic, Edward Phillip Kennedy, George Cardinal Pell, Redfern, Redfern, New South Wales, Presbyter…aboriginal
Edward Phillip Kennedy was a prominent Australian clergyman and activist. Ted Kennedy was known throughout Australia as the priest of St...
Vincent Lingiari

Vincent Lingiari

male, deceased (1988)
Australian indigenous rights activist, aboriginal, Gurindji, Indigenous Australian politics, leader, Order of Australia
Vincent Lingiari (1908-1988), was an Aboriginal rights activist who was awarded the Order of Australia for his services to the Aboriginal people....
Naata Nungurrayi

Naata Nungurrayi

female, 77 years old
postage stamp, indigenous australian, stamps, Pollock Hills, Nancy Nungurrayi, George Tjungurrayi…aboriginal, Australian Aboriginal artist
Naata Nungurrayi is an Australian Aboriginal artist who was born at the site of Kumil, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia, in 1932. She...