Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann

Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann AM (born 1950) is an Australian Aboriginal activist, educator and artist of the Ngan’gityemerri language group. Ungunmerr-Baumann is the first Indigenous teacher to work in the Northern Territory. and the owner of Rak Malfiyin Homeland. She is also the first Indigenous Australian woman to visit Antarctica. Ungunmerr-Baumann is a "devout Christian" and much of her artwork reflects religious themes.

Biography Ungunmerr-Baumann was born in 1950 in Daly River. She was baptized as a Catholic when she was fifteen. As a teenager, she worked as a domestic servant to a teacher who eventually employed her as an assistant teacher.