Zaachariaha Fielding

Place of Birth: Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia

Date of Birth: c. 1991/1992

Ethnicity: Aboriginal Australian [Yankunytjatjara, Arrernte, Bwgcolman and/or Tiwi], Torres Strait Islander, 1/16th Baloch, 1/16th Irish, 1/16th Pashtun

Zaachariaha Fielding is an Australian musician and artist. He is the vocalist of electronic duo Electric Fields.

His father is artist Robert Fielding. His mother has been described both as of Torres Strait/Palm Island heritage and as a “Tiwi Islander hip-hop dancer from Cairns.” The indigenous Torres Strait Islanders are Melanesian, while Palm Islanders (Bwgcolman) and Tiwi Islanders are Aboriginal Australian.

Zaachariaha’s paternal grandfather was named Bruce Fielding. Bruce was born at Lilla Creek Station, near Aputula, Northern Territory, and was of Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal Australian descent.

Zaachariaha’s paternal grandmother was Garieva Mahomet “Grieve” Dadleh (the daughter of Noor Mahomet “Lulla” Dadleh and Miriam “Bebe” Khan). Garieva was born at Dalhousie Homestead, Southern Australia. Noor was the son of a Baloch Pakistani father, Dadleh “Dad Ali” Balooch/Baluch; and of a white Australian mother, Lavinia Ellen Shaw, from Hergott Springs, South Australia, who is said to have been of Irish descent. Miriam was the daughter of a Pashtun Pakistani father, from Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and of an Arrernte Aboriginal Australian mother, from Hermannsburg, Northern Territory.

Zaachariaha’s maternal grandfather had the surname Lowah.

Sources: https://www.glenelgartgallery.com.au
https://www.aboriginalsignature.com

Death record of Zaachariaha’s paternal great-grandfather, Noor Mahomet “Lulla” Dadleh – https://sv.findagrave.com