First Aboriginal protester...

Drawn to this korero of Anthony Fernando, first Aboriginal protester, who took his People's fight to the Mother Country, at one point standing for three years outside Australia House in Britain wearing a coat with wee skeletons pinned to it. Brother got arrested...

Painting of Fernando in the National Museum of Australia, by Raj Nagi

A researcher, Fiona Paisley, has found three small notebooks in which Fernando recorded his experiences and impressions.

Fernando got arrested outside the Vatican too, and continued to travel around Europe publicising how Britain took what wasn't her's and brutally suppressed First Australians as part of the ugly Imperial venture...

The notebooks are being digitised. A book by Paisley, 'The Lone Protester', is available through Aboriginal Studies Press.


References: http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/aboriginal-activist-campaigned-europe-100-years-agohttp://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/aboriginal-activist-campaigned-europe-100-years-ago

The Ohlone/Costanoan People, Indian Canyon

I'm heading to San Jose. First Nations there are the Ohlone/Costanoan people. (Many thanks to Melissa Nelson of SFU for this information :) The video above and image below are sourced through their websites and resources.

I'm speaking at the inaugural Citizen Science Conference on Indigenous Peoples and Citizen Science. My theme is to unpack the implications of 'citizenship' on CitSci with the intent to illuminate the struggle of Indigenous Peoples worldwide to be accepted as First Citizens on their own lands. Good science can only come out of good (by which I mean inclusive, ethical) politics...