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Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
"I believe she is one of the best up-and-coming younger writers in North America and I am always watching to see what she is doing.”
Joy Harjo, 1999
Kateri is an Anishnaabe writer of mixed ancestry from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation.
She lives and works at Neyaashiinigmiing, Cape Croker ...more...
Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy
Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy is of Tsalagi Aniyunwiya ancestry and was born in the Monterrey Bay area on the Pacific coast. She became a member of the League of Canadian Poets after her first book of poetry-Songs that Untune the Sky. She has a PhD from the University of Maryland and is ...more...
Joanne Arnott
Joanne Arnott is an award winning Metis writer from Manitoba. Born in 1960, in Winnipeg, she studied at the University of Windsor, in Ontario. She has lived on the west coast since 1982.
Her first book of poetry, Wiles of Girlhood won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1992. Other books include: ...more...
Lesley Belleau
Lesley Belleau was born and raised in Garden RiverFirst Nations, located outside of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. She isOjibway and holds an M.A in English Literature and Creative Writing.
She writes fiction, poetry, plays and spoken word pieces as well thatshe has performed on and off-stage. Her poetry
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Chris Bose
Chris Bose is a writer, multi-disciplinary artist, musician and filmmaker, who has read and performed at Universities, theatres and coffeehouses at all points from Victoria to Montreal, as well as at the BC Festival of the Arts as a literary delegate to the Talking Stick Aboriginal Arts Festival in Vancouver and ...more...
Warren Cariou
Warren Cariou has written fiction and nonfiction about his home community in northwestern Saskatchewan, including Lake of the Prairies, which won the Drainie-Taylor Prize and was nominated for several other prizes. He teaches Aboriginal literature at the ...more...
Joseph A Dandurand
Marilyn Dumont has published two collections of poetry
David is "a French/Ojibwa half-breed born in Northern Ontario in 1969.
I am married with two children and a dog." He has a B.A. from Lakehead University and published his first book of poetry Night in the Exude in 1997.
He graduated from the En'owkin International School of Writing in 1999. ...more...
Al Hunter is Anishinaabe from Manitou Rapids, Rainy River First Nations. Al has published his poetry in many journals and anthologies, including, Rampike; Canadian Literature; Boyhood, Growing Up Male: A Multicultural Anthology; Poets Who Haven't Moved to Minneapolis; North Coast Review; New Breed; and Gatherings.
Back in 1968 a grade 5 student, after studying Indians indepth for five weeks, asked Basil Johnston, a visitor to the school, "Is that all there is to Indians, Sir?"
Daniel Heath Justice is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and was raised in the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in that part of the Mouache Ute territory now known as Victor, Colorado.
He teaches Indigenous North American literatures and Aboriginal studies at the University of Toronto. Kynship is ...more...
John McDonald is a writer, artist, musician and playwright of Plains Cree blood from north-western Saskatchewan. He is a sixth-generation direct descendant of Chief Mistawasis of the Plains Cree, signer of Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton, and part of the Dreaver dynasty of chiefs and politicians.
RollandNadjiwon is potowatomi, born on the Cape Croker Indian reservation. Forsome years his family has been relocated to Sault Ste. Marie with hismother’s people, the ojibway. ‘Seven deer dancing’ is Rolland’s firstcollection of poems. However, his poems, essays and short stories havebeen published in magazines in Canada and the United States.
GREGORY SCOFIELD
is one of Canada's leading Aboriginal writers whose five collections of poetry have earned him both a national and international audience. He is known for his unique and dynamic reading style that blends oral storytelling, song, spoken word and the Cree language. His maternal ancestry can be ...more...
A Dogrib (Tlicho) Dene from Fort Smith, NWT, Richard Van Camp is an internationally renowned storyteller and best-selling author. He is the author of the novel The Lesser Blessed, a collection of short stories Angel Wing Splash Pattern, and two children's books with Cree artist, George Littlechild. His new ...more...
Joseph is a Kwantlen poet, playwright and father from the Fort Langley band in British Columbia. He received a Diploma in Performing Arts from Algonquin College and studied Theatre and Direction at the University of Ottawa. His produced plays include Shake (published by skyuks press 2003.), Crackers ...more...
Marilyn Dumont
A Really Good Brown Girl and green girl dreams Mountains.
These works have won the League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Writer's Guild of Alberta Stephan F. Stephansson Award.
She has been Writer-in-Residence at many ...more...
David A Groulx
Al Hunter
Basil Johnston
Since that time Basil Johnston has written 15 books in English and 5 in Ojibway to show that there ...more...
Daniel Heath Justice
John McDonald
His maternal grandfather was ...more...
Rolland Nadjiwon
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Greg Scofield
Richard Van Camp
