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David Unaipon
David Unaipon (born David Ngunaitponi) (28 September 18727 February 1967) was a well-known Indigenous Australian〔Graham Jenkin, ''Conquest of the Ngarrindjeri, The Story of the Lower Murray lakes Tribes,''(1979)1985 Rigby reprint p.185〕 of the Ngarrindjeri people, a preacher, inventor and writer. Unaipon's contribution to Australian society helped to break many Indigenous Australian stereotypes, and he is featured on the Australian $50 note in commemoration.
==Biography==
Born at the Point McLeay Mission on the banks of Lake Alexandrina in the Coorong region of South Australia, Unaipon was the fourth of nine children of James and Nymbulda Ngunaitponi. Unaipon began his education at the age of seven at the Point McLeay Mission School and soon became known for his intelligence, with the former secretary of the Aborigines' Friends' Association stating in 1887: "I only wish the majority of white boys were as bright, intelligent, well-instructed and well-mannered, as the little fellow I am now taking charge of."〔Jenkin, p. 185.〕
Unaipon left school at 13 to work as a servant for C.B. Young in Adelaide where Young actively encouraged Unaipon's interest in literature, philosophy, science and music. In 1890, he returned to Point McLeay where he apprenticed to a bootmaker and was appointed as the mission organist.〔(David Unaipon Preacher, Inventor, Musician & Writer ) History Trust of South Australia〕 In the late 1890s he travelled to Adelaide but found that his colour was a bar to employment in his trade and instead took a job as storeman for an Adelaide bootmaker before returning to work as book-keeper in the Point McLeay store.
On 4 January 1902 he married Katherine Carter (née Sumner), a Tangane woman.〔(Unaipon, David (1872 - 1967) ) Australian Dictionary of Biography〕 He was later employed by the Aborigines' Friends' Association as a ''deputationer'', in which role he travelled and preached widely in seeking support for the Point McLeay Mission.〔(Unaipon, David (1872 - 1967) ) Webjournals〕 Unaipon retired from preaching in 1959 but continued working on his inventions into the 1960s.〔
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