John Bugy Bugy Christophersen, a Murran man from the Cobourg Peninsula, died on the weekend after a long illness.
Mr Christophersen was one of the organisers of a convoy that took forty thousand people to Sydney to protest the bicentenary of British settlement and the treatment of Indigenous people in Australia in 1988.
Mr Christophersen also became the World Council of Indigenous Peoples’ vice-president in 1990 and was the longest-serving member and deputy chairman of the Northern Land Council