resting_place boards death_date death_place birth_place awards resting_place_coordinates ethnicity honorific_suffix birth_date known_for article_title name partner
oak valley , south australia imparja television 18 october 2008 -lrb- 52 years -rrb- ceduna , south australia barton railway siding , south australia member honorary doctorate , university of adelaide , 1996 of the order of australia , 1989 ; -29.40148 130.73977 type : landmark inline pitjantjatjara am march 1936 australian aboriginal political activist and land-rights campaigner archie barton
 archie barton mary harrison
archie barton

archie barton am was an australian aboriginal political activist and land-rights campaigner .
he played a key role in the 20-year campaign in the maralinga tjarutja people regaining ownership of their land , following the british nuclear tests at maralinga and having the test sites cleaned up , and establishing oak valley with funds provided as compensation for the dispossession of the maralinga people from their lands
