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Saunders was born near Purnim on the Aboriginal Reserve at Framlingham in western Victoria on 7 August 1920. [1] He was a member of the Gunditjmara people. [2] His father, Chris, was a veteran of the First World War, having served as a machine gunner in the Australian Imperial Force.
Kirli Saunders – author and poet; Jared Thomas – writer, and arts curator; Margaret Tucker – activist and author of If Everyone Cared (1977), one of the first autobiographies of the Stolen Generations; David Unaipon (1872–1967) – first published Aboriginal author; James Unaipon (1835–1907) – author and preacher; Ellen van Neerven ...
It was the first film by an Indigenous director to win an AFI Award. [4] It screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival in the category of Un Certain Regard, [5] [6] and was broadcast nationally in Australia on SBS TV. [7] He wrote and directed Harry's War (1999), a feature film based on his uncle's role in World War II on the Kokoda Trail.
Kapiu Masi Gagai (c. 1894 - 1946) pearler, boatman, mission worker and soldier who served in World War II. Rona Glynn (1936 - 1965) was the first Indigenous Australian school teacher and nurse in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) Jimmy Governor (c. 1875 - 1901) a famous outlaw with his brother Joe Governor
The novel was inspired in part by real-life Indigenous World War I heroes Francis Pegahmagabow and John Shiwak. In addition it seems relevant that Boyden's father Raymond Wilfrid Boyden was a medical officer renowned for his bravery, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and was the most highly decorated medical officer of World War ...
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993) was a famous Aboriginal poet, writer and rights activist credited with publishing the first Aboriginal book of verse: We Are Going (1964). [ 6 ] There was a flourishing of Aboriginal literature from the 1970s through to the 1990s, coinciding with a period of political advocacy and focus on Indigenous Australian ...
First Aboriginal person and first woman to become a permanent head of ministry in Australia: Patricia O'Shane; 1982. First Indigenous Australian woman to gain a private pilot's licence: Virginia Wykes. [91] First Indigenous Australian man to play at Wimbledon: Ian Goolagong (mixed doubles with sister Evonne). [92]
Francis Pegahmagabow MM & two bars (/ ˌ p ɛ ɡ ə ˈ m æ ɡ ə b oʊ / peg-ə-MAG-ə-boh; March 9, 1891 – August 5, 1952) was an Ojibwe soldier, politician and activist in Canada. He was the most highly decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian military history and the most effective sniper of the First World War.