What is Gordon Briscoe?
{{Infobox person | name = Gordon Briscoe | image = Bobbi Sykes and Gordon Briscoe 1972.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year|1938}} | birth_place = [[Alice Springs|Alice Springs, Northern Territory]] | death_date = {{Death year and age|2023|1938}} | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Research Fellow | employer = [[Australian National University]] | education = [[Bachelor of Arts|BA (Hist)]], [[Master of Arts|MA]], [[PhD]] - [[Australian National University]] | nationality = Australian }} Dr '''Gordon Briscoe''' [[Order of Australia|OAM]] (1938–2023)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2023-07-07|title=Vale Professor Gordon Briscoe AO|url=https://aiatsis.gov.au/whats-new/news/vale-professor-gordon-briscoe-ao|access-date=2023-07-08|website=AIATSIS|language=en}}</ref> was an [[Indigenous Australian|Aboriginal Australian]] [[activist]] and a retired [[Association football|football]] player.<ref name=Jupp>{{cite book | last =Jupp | first =James | authorlink = | title =The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins | publisher =[[Cambridge University Press]] | year =2001 | location = | isbn =0-521-80789-1 | page =248}}</ref> He was a member of the [[Stolen Generations]]. Briscoe was born in [[Alice Springs, Northern Territory|Alice Springs]]. He was descended from the [[Marduntjara]] and [[Pitjantjatjara]] nations of [[Central Australia]]. He was taken away from his mother as a child and was taught at a [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Mission (Christianity)|mission]] in [[Adelaide]].<ref>{{cite web | work = Collaborating for Indigenous Rights | title = People - Gordon Briscoe | publisher = National Museum of Australia | url = http://indigenousrights.net.au/person.asp?pID=1051 | accessdate = 2008-12-16 | archive-date = 2008-07-22 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080722045002/http://www.indigenousrights.net.au/perso