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Aboriginal rights campaigner, educator

Hyllus Noel Maris (25 December – 4 August ) was an Aboriginal Australian activist, poet and educator.

Maris was a Yorta Yorta woman. She was a key figure in the Aboriginal rights movement of the s and s, a poet, an educator and a scriptwriter.

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Early life

Hyllus Noel Maris was born on 25 December in Echuca, Victoria,^[1] and identified as a Yorta Yorta woman.^[2] Her mother, Geraldine Briggs, née Clements, was a Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri woman.

Her father, Selwyn Briggs, was a Wurundjeri and Yorta Yorta man. Both of her parents were prominent community activists; Maris was the third of their nine children.^[3] The family lived on the Cummeragunja Reserve until , when Maris' parents participated in the Cummeragunja walk-off, a protest against the management of the reserve.^[4] They then settled at "The Flat" in the Mooroopna-Shepparton region of Victoria.

Selwyn Briggs was the first Abor