Dr Daniel Vachon was born in Windsor, Ontario and has lived in Australia for thirty-five years. He has a Masters Degree and a PhD in anthropology. His early work in Australia began with doctoral research in the northwest of South Australia in the late 1970s, followed by five years working as an anthropologist with the Pitjantjatjara Council. Since 1985 he has worked as a consultant anthropologist engaged principally in land claim research in several regions of Aboriginal Australia; namely, the Southern Arrernte lands (Northern Territory), throughout the Kimberley, the Pilbara, the WA Goldfields, the Great Sandy Desert and the Lakes Region of South Australia. For the past fifteen years he has been engaged as an anthropological expert in native title claims in Western and South Australia.
