Burnum, Burnum

Burnum, Burnum
▪ 1998

      Australian Aboriginal political activist who often conducted his battle for Aboriginal rights by performing flamboyant stunts; his best-known one involved claiming England for Aborigines by planting an Aboriginal flag atop the white cliffs of Dover (b. January 1936—d. Aug. 17, 1997).

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