Australian Aboriginal elder
First day of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy outside Parliament House in Canberra on 17 January 1972. Left to right: Billy Craigie, Bert Williams, Ghillar Michael Anderson and Tony Coorey. Ghillar Michael Anderson (born 1951), orMichael Ghillar Anderson , is aEuahlayi Elder and activist fromGoodooga ,New South Wales , in Australia.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
In 1972 he was one of the four men who set up theAboriginal Tent Embassy inCanberra , as a protest in the struggle for the recognition ofIndigenous land rights in Australia ,[ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
As a participant in theAustralian Aboriginal Astronomy Project , Anderson has collaborated[ 2] [ 7] traditional star knowledge .[ 2] Emu in the sky astronomical interpretation, that recognises the space between the stars in theMilky Way as containing ancestral figures,[ 3] [ 8] Dark Emu [ 9]
Anderson was featured in a documentary film aboutAboriginal Australian astronomy , which was widely shown, including in schools.[ 2]
Anderson has sat on aUN Committee inGeneva addressing therepatriation of cultural material .[ 10]
In 2013, Anderson with other leaders, proclaimed a republic inDirranbandi, Queensland . He was elected his nation's head of state and informedQueen Elizabeth II .[ 11]
In June 2021 Asteroid10040 Ghillar was named in honour of Anderson by the IAU.[ 12] [ 2] asteroid was discovered by Czech astronomerZdeňka Vávrová at theKleť Observatory in 1984. The citation reads as follows:[ 1]
Ghillar Michael Anderson (b. 1951), of Goodooga, NSW (Australia), is an Aboriginal elder, Senior Law Man, and leader of the Euahlayi people bordering northern New South Wales and southernQueensland . He has shared in-depth knowledge aboutKamilaroi and Euahlayi astronomical knowledge and has published several academic papers on the topic.
^a b "(10040) Ghillar = 1970 EA3 = 1981 TK1 = 1984 QM = 1996 DJ3" .IAU Minor Planet Center .International Astronomical Union . Retrieved16 July 2021 .^a b c d e Lysaght, Gary-Jon (6 July 2021)."Asteroid named in honour of Ghillar Michael Anderson for the Aboriginal elder's contribution to astronomy" .ABC News . Updated 8 July 2021. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved16 July 2021 . ^a b Fuller, Robert S.; Anderson, Michael G.; Norris, Ray P.; Trudgett, Michelle (2014). "The emu sky knowledge of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi peoples".Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage .17 (2):171– 179.arXiv :1403.0304 doi :10.3724/SP.J.1440-2807.2014.02.04 .S2CID 53352158 . ^ Dow, Coral (4 April 2000)."Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Icon or Eyesore?" .Parliament of Australia . Canberra: Parliamentary Library. Archived fromthe original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved6 July 2010 . ^ "The Aboriginal Tent Embassy 20 years on" .Canberra Times . Retrieved7 July 2021 .^ "Aboriginal Embassy" .Tribune (Sydney, NSW : 1939 - 1991) . 2 May 1972. p. 10. Retrieved7 July 2021 .^ Duane Hamacher, Associate Professor of Cultural Astronomy University of Melbourne. Retrieved 6 July 2021.^ "Star Knowledge of First Australians" .Cosmos Magazine . 19 January 2021. Retrieved7 July 2021 .^ Pascoe, Bruce (2014),Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? ISBN 978-1-922142-43-6 ^ Fairley, Gina (9 June 2021)."Is custodianship outdated thinking for museums and galleries?" .ArtsHub Australia . Retrieved7 July 2021 . ^ Debra, Jopson."Boomerang republic: One man's struggle to restart his country" .SBS . Retrieved7 July 2021 . ^ WGSBN Bull. 1,3 , Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature, 16 June 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
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