Harry Hewitt

Harry Hewitt, sometimes spelled "Hewit", "Ewart" or "Hewett", ( – 23 January 1907) was an Indigenous Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer. In 1889, Hewitt played for the Medindie Football Club, and so is believed to be the first Indigenous Australian to play in the South Australian Football Association (SAFA), known today as the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Early life Hewitt was born in the south-east of South Australia. Hewitt was a member of the Bungandidj people. As a child he was taken to the Point McLeay Mission station. Around this time David Uniapon would have been born at the Point McLeay Mission. From 1995 to 2018 the Point McLeay Mission church appeared on the Australian fifty-dollar note along with David Unaipon. Hewitt was said to be a "champion climber", once climbing a tall gum tree on the banks of the Hindmarsh River in Victor Harbor and carving his initials in it at the top of the trunk with a tomahawk.