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	SA History \| SA Prominent People \| Unaipon
		David Unaipon was born on 28 September 1872 at Raukkan (Point McLeay) Mission in the Tailem Bend area, South Australia.
		Unaipon continued to read books and journals sent to the mission, especially the scientific works, and began to study mechanics and to conduct experiments in perpetual motion, ballistics, and polarised light.
		A national David Unaipon award for Aboriginal writers was instituted in 1988, and his image is on one side of the $50 note issued in 1995.
	www.history.sa.gov.au /history/sa_history/prominent_people/unaipon.htm (355 words)

	Biography / Australia / David Unaipon
		David Unaipon made significant contributions to science and literature, and to improvements in the conditions of Aboriginal people.
		Unaipon received his initial education at the Point McLeay Mission School and as a teenager demonstrated a thirst for knowledge, particularly in philosophy, science and music.
		Unaipon, who married Katherine Carter (nee Sumner), a Tangani woman from The Coorong in January 1902, was prominent in public life as a spokesman for Aboriginal people.
	www.polymernotes.org /biographies/AUS_bio_unaipon.htm (526 words)

	The Unaipon School - UniSA. David and James Unaipon - Ngarrindjeri Educators
		David Unaipon (1872-1967), a Ngarrindjeri man, was born at Raukkan (Point McLeay Mission) on the shores of Lake Alexandrina in South Australia.
		David Unaipon used his abilities as a lecturer and a writer to promote the interests of his people and to influence public opinion.
		In 1988 a new Aboriginal literary award, the David Unaipon Award, was established to promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers.
	www.unisa.edu.au /unaipon/about/unaipon.asp (391 words)

	Didj "u" Know - Who is David Unaipon?
		A Ngarrindjeri man born in 1872 at Raukkan (Point McLeay) in the Tailem Bend area of the Murray River, David Unaipon was a writer, a scientist and a public speaker.
		David Unaipon also wrote his autobiography called My Life Story in 1954, but many of the things he wrote didn’t get published in books at all, and some of his writings are being kept safe in places like the Mitchell Library at the State Library of New South Wales.
		David Unaipon was married to Katherine Carter (nee Sumner), a Tangani woman from the Coorong.
	www.abc.net.au /messageclub/duknow/stories/s888637.htm (485 words)

	David Unaipon Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		David Unaipon was born at Raukkan, on the southern bank of Lake Alexandrina in South Australia on 28 September 1872.
		Unaipon's father, James Ngunaitponi (the name Unaipon is also an Anglicization) was the first Aboriginal convert, arriving at the mission from Wellington on the eastern bank of the lake by boat in 1864.
		David Unaipon was the fourth of their nine children.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/david-unaipon-dlb (188 words)

	Unaipon, David (1872 - 1967) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
		UNAIPON, DAVID (1872-1967), preacher, author and inventor, was born on 28 September 1872 at the Point McLeay Mission, South Australia, fourth of nine children of James Ngunaitponi, evangelist, and his wife Nymbulda, both Yaraldi speakers from the lower Murray River region.
		Unaipon sold these and other booklets while employed by the A.F.A. His articles, beginning on 2 August 1924 in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, were written in a prose that showed the influence of Milton and Bunyan; they pre-dated the work of other Aboriginal writers by over thirty years.
		In 1988 the national David Unaipon award for Aboriginal writers was instituted and an annual Unaipon lecture was established in Adelaide.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A120339b.htm (976 words)

	Native Legends David Unaipon first aboriginal book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		David Unaipon married Katherine Carter, a Tangani woman from The Coorong in January 1902.
		David Unaipon wanted his Aboriginal culture to be understood and took pride in his efforts to ensure that "an enduring record of our customs, beliefs, and imaginings" was preserved.
		David Unaipon was prominent in public life as a spokesman for Aboriginal people.
	www.colindidj.com /books/david_unaipon.htm (245 words)

	Bangarra Dance Theatre: Clan
		Unaipon sent a handwritten patent diagram of his modified handpiece for shearing to Basedow in 1914, as a supporting document for financing its development.
		The copyright for Unaipon's work was sold to anthropologist and Chief Medical Officer of South Australia, William Ramsay Smith, who edited the work slightly and published it under his own name in London in 1930, under the title Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals.
		Earlier, in 1988, the national David Unaipon award for Aboriginal writers was established, in recognition of Unaipon's outstanding achievements.
	www.bangarra.com.au /diary/clan2006.html (821 words)

	Graceful spin on a life's web - Arts - www.smh.com.au
		As she tells it, the South Australian-born Unaipon floated into her life late one night in Monte Carlo in 2002, as Rings and her sister Gina were chatting after a performance of Corroboree at the Monaco Dance Forum.
		It was also a symbol of the famed Ngarrindjeri basket-weaving skills and the various strands of knowledge that Unaipon pursued, she adds, tracing invisible spokes in the air with a finger.
		Unaipon was fascinated by Isaac Newton's laws of motion, so that's what we've tried to do, showing the body in its raw state, and the way it is affected by movement, by gravity," she says.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/06/15/1087244911921.html (1069 words)

	Bangarra Dance Theatre: Clan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Unaipon was always trying to find the perfect place for himself and his people within a society that was changing very quickly.
		Personally I was attracted to Unaipon's life and story because I have always been interested in who came before me and what the ground was like that they trod on, the obstacles that they encountered.
		Unaipon was a strong advocate of education just as I am passionate about educating people through art.
	www.bangarra.com.au /diary/clan-chor.html (1395 words)

	Clan - ArtsReviews - www.theage.com.au
		David Unaipon (1872-1967) spent his early life on a South Australian mission, studied literature, science, philosophy and religion.
		Unaipon's interest in physics is illustrated by clever movements suggesting experiments with mechanics, but these, too, dwindle into a triumph of repetition over invention.
		And an attempt to unite the cultures of the Sistine Chapel and Uluru is crude and fatuous: Unaipon's belief in the healing power of Christianity is represented by a man standing on his head and wiggling his toes to the sound of Allegri's Miserere.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/06/12/1086749942944.html?from=storyrhs (412 words)

	Kairos Catholic Journal - Reclaimed treasure
		David Unaipon (1872–1969) was a remarkable man, possibly more widely known today than in his own lifetime, but chiefly as “the man on the $50 note.”
		Unaipon was one of nine children born to James and Nymbulad Unaipon (an anglicised spelling of “Ngunaitponi,)” at the congregational Mission Station at Point McLeay, South Australia.
		Unaipon developed a great interest in music and philosophy, but especially in science and was an accomplished inventor.
	www.kairos.com.au /content/view/396/44 (486 words)

	indigenous australians – atmitchell
		Unaipon's fascination for science was kindled under the teaching of Mr.
		Unaipon went on to develop many inventions including an improved hand-piece for sheep-shearing which was patented in 1909 with the help of Herbert Basedow, a former South Australian Protector of Aborigines.
		He was further honoured in 1988 with the establishment of the annual national David Unaipon Award for unpublished Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, and an annual Unaipon Lecture in Adelaide.
	www.atmitchell.com /journeys/social/indigenous/unaipon.cfm (348 words)

	Forging The Nation - David Unaipon
		Born in 1872 at the Point Macleay mission in South Australia, David Unaipon was a man of intelligence, religious faith and vision.
		The annual David Unaipon Award for unpublished works by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders honours his memory.
		David Unaipon's portrait is depicted on the Australian $50 note.
	www.awm.gov.au /forging/australians/unaipon.htm (192 words)

	David Unaipon Innovation Awards - David Unaipon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		David Unaipon was born 28th September 1872, and as a young man taught himself to read and write and went on to lodge 10 patents including modifications to mechanical shears for shearing sheep.
		Unaipon was posthumously awarded the FAW Patricia Weickhardt Award for Aboriginal writers.
		The David Unaipon Award for unpublished Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers was established in 1998.
	www.innovation.sa.gov.au /ict/dbu/david_unaipon/david_unaipon (281 words)

	Unaipon, James (c. 1835 - 1907) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
		UNAIPON, JAMES (c.1835-1907), Aboriginal leader, was born at Piwingang, a Murray River lagoon (west of present-day Tailem Bend), South Australia.
		Unaipon's marriage on 27 July 1866 to Nymbulda, a Karatindjeri clanswoman and daughter of the traditional Yaraldi leader Pullum ('King Peter'), was the mission's first Christian wedding.
		He and Nymbulda were to have nine children, the fourth being David Unaipon.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/AS10470b.htm (714 words)

	7.30 Report - 14/06/2004: David Unaipon inspires theatre production
		David Unaipon secured a unique place in Australian history, from the early 1900s up until his death in 1967, after inventing a new hand-held sheep shear, becoming the first Aboriginal author to be published and fighting for the rights and recognition of his people in the early 20th Century.
		KATHY SWAN; A voice for his people from the early 1900s up to his death in 1967, David Unaipon was also an inventor, who lacked the funds to keep up the patents on his inventions -- among them, this revolutionary hand-held sheep shear.
		KATHY SWAN; David Unaipon's journey was invention and science, and his obsession -- perpetual motion, conjuring a machine that could self-sustain, propelling itself for ever.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2004/s1131623.htm (1014 words)

	David Unaipon - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		David Unaipon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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	encarta.msn.com /David_Unaipon.html (99 words)

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		David Unaipon, ‘Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines’, manuscript and typescript, (Sydney, 1924-1925).
		Unaipon, ‘Aboriginal Folk Lore’, in Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines, (Melbourne, 2001) p.
		Unaipon, ‘Release of the Dragon Flies, by the Fairy, Sun Beam’, in Native Legends, p.
	epress.anu.edu.au /bwwp/chapter2-notes.htm (656 words)

	Popular Perceptions of an Unpopular People, 1929-1945
		Unaipon was born in 1872 at the Point McLeay Mission in South Australia, administered by the interdenominational group, the Aborigines’ Friends’ Association.
		Unaipon employs a plain style of expression here which avoids imagery and literary flourishes and is very like the concise explication in ‘An Aboriginal Pleads For His Race’.
		Though Unaipon’s literary works had a negligible impact during the 1929-1945 era, having been published so incompletely and obscurely, the writings of many white authors who dealt with Aboriginal themes were more influential during that same period – and for many years afterwards.
	epress.anu.edu.au /bwwp/mobile_devices/ch02.html (8544 words)

	Henry Thornton - CLAN — Bangarra Dance Theatre
		Frances Ring’s contribution to Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Double Bill Clan is Unaipon, an abstract piece which conjures the life of one of Australia’s most wonderful and relatively unknown inventors and philosophers — David Unaipon (pronounced You-nigh-poon).
		Unaipon’s acquiring of knowledge (1872 — 1967) was far more unique in circumstance.
		• “Unaipon(‘s) handwritten patent diagram of his modified handpiece for shearing was originally patented in 1909...
	www.henrythornton.com /print-article.asp?article_id=2663 (642 words)

	RBA: David Unaipon Biographical Summary
		A Ngarrindjeri man, Unaipon was born at the Point McLeay Mission, on the Lower Murray in South Australia, on 28 September 1872, the fourth of nine children of the evangelist James Ngunaitponi and his wife Nymbulda, both of whom were Yaraldi speakers.
		As early as 1914, Unaipon anticipated the helicopter, applying the principle of the boomerang.
		He died on 7 February 1967 and was buried in Point McLeay cemetery.
	www.rba.gov.au /CurrencyNotes/NotesInCirculation/bio_david_unaipon.html (526 words)

	Second David Unaipon Lecture
		David Unaipon, it appears, provided one such bit.
		His lasting legacy to your country I should think, will be more than his personal genius inventions like that used for shearing, but the inherent symbolism of a native-settler partnership in developing the current wealth of the modern national state.
		ETJ Durie, BA LLB, LLD (honoris causa) Wellington, is Chief Judge of the Maori Land Court, Chairperson of the Waitangi Tribunal and member of Ngati Raukawa and Rangitane.
	www.knowledge-basket.co.nz /oldwaitangi/press/91unaipo.HTM (3727 words)

	David Unaipon Innovation Award
		The David Unaipon Innovation Awards are annual Awards giving young Aboriginal people the opportunity to positively engage with Information and Communication Technology and to tell their story to the wider community.
		The theme of the David Unaipon Innovation Awards this year is a "Tell us your story".
		The story may be about the young people themselves or their community, perhaps an issue that affects their lives, a problem in their community or maybe a success story from their community.
	www.officeforyouth.sa.gov.au /GetInvolved/DavidUnaiponInnovationAward/tabid/364/Default.aspx (149 words)

	Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines
		Unaipon's name does not appear anywhere in the book, except where he is mentioned in passing as a 'narrator'.
		In collating this new edition of the stories Unaipon collected and transcribed, Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker have undertaken a 'literary repatriation', restoring the text to its original form and bringing it home to its community--the community to whom the stories belonged in the first place.
		The descendants of David Unaipon played a pivotal role in verifying and editing the manuscript, noting anything that is inconsistent according to their knowledge, and restoring any words lost in the transcription from the hand-written version to the microfilmed typescript.
	www.mup.unimelb.edu.au /catalogue/0-522-85246-7.html (640 words)

	Contributions of Unaipon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1914 Unaipon anticipated the helicopter, applying the principle of the boomerang.
		His earliest published works include an article entitled “Aboriginals: Their Traditions and Customs” in the Sydney Daily telegraph (2 August 1924), “The story of the Mungingee” in The Home magazine (February 1925), and a fifteen page booklet entitled Native Legends (published in 19290.
		He was also honored in 1988 by the establishment of an annual national David Unaipon Award for unpublished Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, and an annual Unaipon lecture in Adelaide.
	www.petra.ac.id /asc/aborigines/well_known/contributions_unaipon.html (369 words)

	Clan - ArtsReviews - www.theage.com.au
		David Unaipon was an indigenous Australian philosopher, scientist and storyteller, now depicted on our $50 note.
		Elements of Unaipon's scientific work are abstracted into movement as the dancers embody concepts from physics, such as perpetual motion, action and reaction.
		Unaipon is full of strong imagery, a resonating work with depth and clarity.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/06/14/1087065071816.html (469 words)

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