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'''Major Lancelot Sumner''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 1948), also known as '''Uncle Moogy''', is an [[Aboriginal Australian elder]], cultural adviser, dancer, and activist based in [[South Australia]]. |
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==Early life and education== |
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Major Lancelot Sumner<ref name=moriarty>{{cite web | title=Major Lancelot Sumner | website=Celia Moriarty Art | url=https://www.celiamoriartyart.com.au/major-lancelot-sumner | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> was born in 1948 on [[Point McLeay]] mission on the shore of [[Lake Alexandrina (South Australia)|Lake Alexandrina]] in South Australia.<ref name=env>{{cite web | title=Major 'Moogy Sumner AM | website=SA Environment Awards | date=1 August 2018 | url=https://www.saenvironmentawards.org.au/major_moogy_sumner_am | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> He is of the [[Ngarrindjeri]] and [[Kaurna]] peoples,<ref>{{cite web | title=Adelaide Film Festival 2023 throws spotlight on SA made films | website=SAFC | date=20 October 2023 | url=https://www.safilm.com.au/latest-news/adelaide-film-festival-2023/ | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> with particular knowledge of and affiliation to Ngarrindjeri culture.<ref name=moriarty/> |
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==Career== |
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"Uncle Moogy" is an elder, dancer, cultural ambassador,<ref name=env/> and activist,<ref>{{facebook|moogysumner|Major "Moogy" Sumner}}</ref> who works to further Ngarrindjeri culture. Apart from traditional dance and song, cultural advice, he creates and advises on various traditional arts and crafts, including [[wood carving]], and combat methods that employ traditional shields, clubs, [[boomerang]]s, and spears.<ref name=env/> He has also worked to develop local, national, and international communities over many decades, and has become a community leader.<ref name=morse2022/> In his later years, he has been heavily involved with the [[Repatriation and reburial of human remains|repatriation and reburial of Aboriginal people's remains]] from overseas institutions.<ref name=kemp2014/> |
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Sumner has campaigned to save the major Australian river systems and against drilling for oil and gas in the [[Great Australian Bight]].<ref name=env/> |
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In 2010 Sumner initiated the inaugural "Ringbalin Murrundi" Rover Spirit project, which relit the ceremonial fires along ancient Aboriginal trade routes of the [[Darling River|Darling]] and [[Murray River]]s.<ref name=morse2022>{{cite web | last=Morse | first=Callan | title=An ambassador for people and defender of Country, Major “Moogy” Sumner honoured at SA Environment Awards | website=[[National Indigenous Times]] | date=4 October 2022 | url=https://nit.com.au/04-10-2022/4023/an-ambassador-for-people-and-defender-of-country-major-moogy-sumner-honoured-at-sa-environment-awards | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> |
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In 2011, Sumner crafted the first Ngarrindjeri [[bark canoe]], dubbed "Moogy's ''Yuki''", [[Country (Indigenous Australians)|on Country]] in over a century.<ref name=morse2022/><ref name=env/> |
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Uncle Moogy often performs [[Welcomes to Country]] at various major events. He danced and spoke at the launch of the [[South Australian Voice to Parliament]] in [[Adelaide]] March 2023,<ref>{{cite web | title=South Australia becomes first state to enact Indigenous voice to parliament | website= [[The Guardian]] | date=26 March 2023 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/26/south-australia-becomes-first-state-to-enact-indigenous-voice-to-parliament | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> and performed the Welcome at the launch of the Yes campaign for the [[Indigenous Voice to Parliament]] in a northern suburb of the same city in August 2023.<ref>{{cite web | last=Butler | first=Josh | last2=Shepherd | first2=Tory | title=Thrilled supporters pack out rousing yes campaign launch in Adelaide’s outer suburbs | website= [[The Guardian]] | date=30 August 2023 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/30/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-yes-campaign-launch-adelaide | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> |
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He also engages in [[environmental activism]], with particular reference to the [[Murray-Darling basin]]. In November 2023, he was part of a delegation who went to Canberra to lobby the government on the issue of river health.<ref>{{cite web | title=Yesterday I was part of a delegation which came to Canberra...|author= Major Moogy Sumner| website=Facebook | url=https://www.facebook.com/moogysumner/posts/pfbid0NxKWqukhqU8ncbMnBEL3eD9giVRB2mYNKs9hjyaTbhVNTkT6R4gB687vBJtYfB7Gl | access-date=20 November 2023}}</ref> |
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Sumner has worked closely with the [[South Australian Museum]] on the repatriation of human remains to country,<ref>{{cite web | last=Daley | first=Paul | title=The room of the dead: how a museum became a halfway house for bones and spirits | website=[[The Guardian]] | date=4 July 2020 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/05/the-room-of-the-dead-how-a-museum-became-a-halfway-house-for-bones-and-spirits | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Daley | first=Paul | title=‘A deeply colonial backward step’: why are donors, staff and politicians up in arms about the South Australian Museum? | website=The Guardian | date=26 April 2024 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/apr/27/a-deeply-colonial-backward-step-why-are-donors-staff-and-politicians-up-in-arms-about-the-south-australian-museum | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> and was instrumental in the establishment of [[Wangayarta]], a burial ground for Kaurna ancestors in [[Smithfield Memorial Park]] in the northern Adelaide suburb of [[Evanston South]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Kaurna Ancestors reburied at Wangayarta in ‘watershed’ ceremony | website=SA Museum | date=13 December 2023 | url=https://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/media/wangayarta-december-2023 | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Litjens | first=Daniel | title=South Australian Museum restructure on hold as state government launches review | website=ABC News | date=25 April 2024 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-26/sa-government-holds-review-museum-planned-restructure/103767994 | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> |
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In April 2024, Sumner was elected to the [[South Australian Voice to Parliament]], topping the votes in his ward.<ref name=sevoice>{{cite web | title=‘Moogy’ to share voice | website=The SE Voice | date=3 April 2024 | url=https://sevoice.com.au/moogy-to-share-voice/ | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Morse | first=Callan | title=Members of South Australia's First Nations Voice announced | website=National Indigenous Times | date=29 March 2024 | url=https://nit.com.au/29-03-2024/10546/members-of-south-australian-first-nations-voice-announced | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> He had previously campaigned for a "Yes" vote in the [[2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum|2023 referendum]] for a national [[Indigenous Voice to Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web | last=Skujins | first=Angela | title=The voices behind the Voice | website=CityMag | date=28 February 2023 | url=https://citymag.indaily.com.au/happening/the-voices-behind-the-voice/ | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> |
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==Other roles== |
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Summer holds or has held the following roles: |
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*Board member of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority<ref name=morse2022/> |
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*Board member of Black Dance Australia<ref name=morse2022/> |
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*Founder and [[artistic director]] of Tal Kin Jeri (or Talkindjeri) dance group<ref name=morse2022/> since 1992<ref name=kemp2014/> |
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*Worked with the Aboriginal Sobriety Group from 1980; co-founded the Sober Walk Initiative in 2009<ref name=kemp2014/> |
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*Member of the South Australian Aboriginal Advisory Council from 2011<ref name=kemp2014/> until at least end 2020<ref name=pae2020/> |
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*Member of the [[World Archaeological Congress]]<ref name=pae2020/><ref name=wmrr>{{cite web | title=Major Sumner AM | website=WMRR | url=https://www.wmrr.asn.au/Web/Web/Conferences_and_Events/WARRSA_Conference/2022/Speakers/Major_Sumner_AM.aspx | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> |
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*Member of the World Council of Elders<ref name=pae2020/><ref name=wmrr/> |
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==Recognition and honours== |
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He was made a [[Member of the Order of Australia]] in the [[Australia Day honours]] in 2014, "For significant service to the Indigenous community of South Australia through contributions to health, social welfare, youth and cultural heritage organisations".<ref>{{cite web | title= Mr Major L Sumner | website=Australian Honours Search Facility | publisher= Australian Government. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1148987 | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref><ref name=kemp2014>{{cite web | last=Kemp | first=Miles | title=Respect for the power of culture | website= [[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|Daily Telegraph]] | date=25 January 2014 | url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/australia-day-honour-for-advocate-of-aboriginal-rights-major-sumner/news-story/6549d391bb4a407b38e10f0e41da127a?nk=f4826c6a959c38cedaca7182c7f148a9-1714185869 | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> |
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In November 2020, Sumner was recognised as Elder of the Year in the [[City of Port Adelaide Enfield]]'s ATSI Awards,{{efn|Instigated by [[Josie Agius]], Pat Waria-Read, and Susan Dixon in 1998; first awards held 1999.}} in which he was described as a "world-renowned performer and cultural ambassador of Ngarrindjeri arts, crafts, [[martial arts]] and traditional culture", "highly respected Elder", "local ambassador for Aboriginal people and culture within the City of Port Adelaide Enfield and the broader western Adelaide suburbs... an international, national and local icon".<ref name=pae2020>{{cite web| url=https://www.cityofpae.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0038/1186868/ATSI-Booklet_2020_FINAL.pdf| title= ATSI Awards 2020| date=November 2020| publisher=[[City of Port Adelaide Enfield]]}}</ref> |
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In 2021 won the [[Premier of South Australia]]'s [[NAIDOC Award]].<ref name=2021naidoc>{{cite web | last=Strathearn | first=Peri | title=Ngarrindjeri elder Major 'Moogy' Sumner wins NAIDOC Week award | website=Murray Bridge News | date=6 July 2021 | url=https://www.murraybridge.news/p/ngarrindjeri-elder-major-moogy-sumner | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref><ref name=env/> |
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In 2022, Sumner awarded a lifetime achiever award South Australian Environment Awards, and was inducted into the SA Environment Hall of Fame.<ref name=env/><ref name=morse2022/> |
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In 2023, the [[Adelaide Film Festival]] bestowed him with the [[Bettison & James Award]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Bettison & James Award | website=Adelaide Film Festival | date=13 November 2023 | url=https://adelaidefilmfestival.org/event/talk-bettison-james-award/ | access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
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A previous resident of [[Millicent, South Australia|Millicent]] in the South East of the state,<ref name=sevoice/> Sumner lives and works in Adelaide and at [[Camp Coorong]].<ref name=wmrr/> |
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==Footnotes== |
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Major Lancelot Sumner AM (born 1948), also known as Uncle Moogy, is an Aboriginal Australian elder, cultural adviser, dancer, and activist based in South Australia.
Early life and education
Major Lancelot Sumner[1] was born in 1948 on Point McLeay mission on the shore of Lake Alexandrina in South Australia.[2] He is of the Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna peoples,[3] with particular knowledge of and affiliation to Ngarrindjeri culture.[1]
Career
"Uncle Moogy" is an elder, dancer, cultural ambassador,[2] and activist,[4] who works to further Ngarrindjeri culture. Apart from traditional dance and song, cultural advice, he creates and advises on various traditional arts and crafts, including wood carving, and combat methods that employ traditional shields, clubs, boomerangs, and spears.[2] He has also worked to develop local, national, and international communities over many decades, and has become a community leader.[5] In his later years, he has been heavily involved with the repatriation and reburial of Aboriginal people's remains from overseas institutions.[6]
Sumner has campaigned to save the major Australian river systems and against drilling for oil and gas in the Great Australian Bight.[2]
In 2010 Sumner initiated the inaugural "Ringbalin Murrundi" Rover Spirit project, which relit the ceremonial fires along ancient Aboriginal trade routes of the Darling and Murray Rivers.[5]
In 2011, Sumner crafted the first Ngarrindjeri bark canoe, dubbed "Moogy's Yuki", on Country in over a century.[5][2]
Uncle Moogy often performs Welcomes to Country at various major events. He danced and spoke at the launch of the South Australian Voice to Parliament in Adelaide March 2023,[7] and performed the Welcome at the launch of the Yes campaign for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament in a northern suburb of the same city in August 2023.[8]
He also engages in environmental activism, with particular reference to the Murray-Darling basin. In November 2023, he was part of a delegation who went to Canberra to lobby the government on the issue of river health.[9]
Sumner has worked closely with the South Australian Museum on the repatriation of human remains to country,[10][11] and was instrumental in the establishment of Wangayarta, a burial ground for Kaurna ancestors in Smithfield Memorial Park in the northern Adelaide suburb of Evanston South.[12][13]
In April 2024, Sumner was elected to the South Australian Voice to Parliament, topping the votes in his ward.[14][15] He had previously campaigned for a "Yes" vote in the 2023 referendum for a national Indigenous Voice to Parliament.[16]
Other roles
Summer holds or has held the following roles:
- Board member of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority[5]
- Board member of Black Dance Australia[5]
- Founder and artistic director of Tal Kin Jeri (or Talkindjeri) dance group[5] since 1992[6]
- Worked with the Aboriginal Sobriety Group from 1980; co-founded the Sober Walk Initiative in 2009[6]
- Member of the South Australian Aboriginal Advisory Council from 2011[6] until at least end 2020[17]
- Member of the World Archaeological Congress[17][18]
- Member of the World Council of Elders[17][18]
Recognition and honours
He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day honours in 2014, "For significant service to the Indigenous community of South Australia through contributions to health, social welfare, youth and cultural heritage organisations".[19][6]
In November 2020, Sumner was recognised as Elder of the Year in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield's ATSI Awards,[a] in which he was described as a "world-renowned performer and cultural ambassador of Ngarrindjeri arts, crafts, martial arts and traditional culture", "highly respected Elder", "local ambassador for Aboriginal people and culture within the City of Port Adelaide Enfield and the broader western Adelaide suburbs... an international, national and local icon".[17]
In 2021 won the Premier of South Australia's NAIDOC Award.[20][2]
In 2022, Sumner awarded a lifetime achiever award South Australian Environment Awards, and was inducted into the SA Environment Hall of Fame.[2][5]
In 2023, the Adelaide Film Festival bestowed him with the Bettison & James Award.[21]
Personal life
A previous resident of Millicent in the South East of the state,[14] Sumner lives and works in Adelaide and at Camp Coorong.[18]
Footnotes
- ^ Instigated by Josie Agius, Pat Waria-Read, and Susan Dixon in 1998; first awards held 1999.
References
- ^ a b "Major Lancelot Sumner". Celia Moriarty Art. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Major 'Moogy Sumner AM". SA Environment Awards. 1 August 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ "Adelaide Film Festival 2023 throws spotlight on SA made films". SAFC. 20 October 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Major "Moogy" Sumner on Facebook
- ^ a b c d e f g Morse, Callan (4 October 2022). "An ambassador for people and defender of Country, Major "Moogy" Sumner honoured at SA Environment Awards". National Indigenous Times. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ a b c d e Kemp, Miles (25 January 2014). "Respect for the power of culture". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ "South Australia becomes first state to enact Indigenous voice to parliament". The Guardian. 26 March 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Butler, Josh; Shepherd, Tory (30 August 2023). "Thrilled supporters pack out rousing yes campaign launch in Adelaide's outer suburbs". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Major Moogy Sumner. "Yesterday I was part of a delegation which came to Canberra..." Facebook. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ Daley, Paul (4 July 2020). "The room of the dead: how a museum became a halfway house for bones and spirits". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Daley, Paul (26 April 2024). "'A deeply colonial backward step': why are donors, staff and politicians up in arms about the South Australian Museum?". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ "Kaurna Ancestors reburied at Wangayarta in 'watershed' ceremony". SA Museum. 13 December 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Litjens, Daniel (25 April 2024). "South Australian Museum restructure on hold as state government launches review". ABC News. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ a b "'Moogy' to share voice". The SE Voice. 3 April 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Morse, Callan (29 March 2024). "Members of South Australia's First Nations Voice announced". National Indigenous Times. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Skujins, Angela (28 February 2023). "The voices behind the Voice". CityMag. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ a b c d "ATSI Awards 2020" (PDF). City of Port Adelaide Enfield. November 2020.
- ^ a b c "Major Sumner AM". WMRR. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ "Mr Major L Sumner". Australian Honours Search Facility. Australian Government. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Strathearn, Peri (6 July 2021). "Ngarrindjeri elder Major 'Moogy' Sumner wins NAIDOC Week award". Murray Bridge News. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ "Bettison & James Award". Adelaide Film Festival. 13 November 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2024.