Date of Birth | 26-June-1901 |
Place of Birth |
Brighton (City of Bayside, Victoria, Melbourne) |
Nationality | |
Donald Fergusson Thomson, OBE was an Australian anthropologist and ornithologist who was largely responsible for turning the Caledon Bay crisis into a "decisive moment in the history of Aboriginal-European relations." He is remembered as a friend of the Yolngu people, and as a champion of understanding, by non-Indigenous Australians, of the culture and society of Indigenous Australians. |
Awards by Donald Thomson |
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1951
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