Category:Donald Thomson

**Donald Thomson**
	Australian anthropologist and ornithologist and Indigenous rights campaigner
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Date of birth	26 June 1901; Melbourne
Date of death	12 May 1970; Melbourne
Country of citizenship	Australia;
Educated at	University of Melbourne; University of Sydney;
Occupation	anthropologist; ornithologist; performing artist;
Employer	University of Melbourne;
Field of work	Aboriginal Australians; anthropology; ornithology;
Spouse	Gladys Thomson;
Award received	Officer of the Order of the British Empire; Patron’s Medal (1951);
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English: Donald Fergusson Thomson OBE (1901 – 1970) 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.