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Emma LaRocque (born 1949) is a Canadian academic of Cree and Métis descent. She is currently a professor of Native American studies at the University of Manitoba. [2]She is also a published poet, writing brief, imagist poems about her ancestral land and culture. [3]
In 2020, the American Indian Film Festival gave Rogers' “Ego of a Nation" the best music video award. [1] Rogers has been nominated in the category Best Spoken Word Recording at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards and the Native American Music Awards . [ 3 ]
Author George Copway (1818–69) wrote an autobiography titled The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-gah-bowh (1847) telling a story of an Indigenous person having been converted to Christianity. [1] It was the first book written by a Canadian Indigenous person in English.
David Alexander Robertson (born 12 January 1977) is a Canadian author and public speaker from Winnipeg, Manitoba.He has published over 25 books across a variety of genres and is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award [1] His first novel, The Evolution of Alice, was published in 2014. [2]
The McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually since 2005 to a First Nations, Inuit or Métis writer for a work published in English in any literary genre. The author receives a cash award of $5,000, donated by the Canadian bookstore chain McNally Robinson.
Marie Annharte Baker during a panel presentation at the Aboriginal Gathering 26 March 2009 [1]. Marie Annharte Baker (born 1942) is a Canadian Anishnabe (Ojibwa) poet and author, a cultural critic and activist, and a performance artist/contemporary storyteller.
Canadian Writers – Resource for Canadian authors publishing in English or French – Athabasca University, Alberta Studies in Canadian Literature – University of New Brunswick Dominion of the North: Literary & Print Culture in Canada – An online exhibition celebrating prominent poets, authors, and historians.
Jeannette Christine Armstrong OC (Okanagan: lax̌lax̌tkʷ; born 1948) is a Canadian author, educator, artist, and activist.She was born and grew up on the Penticton Indian reserve in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, and fluently speaks both the Syilx and English languages. [1]