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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]
Wagamese's book showcases the terrors of residential schools and illuminates ice hockey, a popular sport in Canada, in a positive light. [13] In 2014, Thomas King's book, The Inconvient Indian: a Curious Account of Native People in North America, won the Burt Award. King tells a story about the past relations between settlers and natives.
City of Vancouver’s 2016 Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Artist in Literary Arts. Nominated for City of Vancouver 2014 Remarkable Women Award. Won first prize and two honourable mentions in the poetry section of the 2013 Royal City Literary Arts Write On Contest. Finalist in the 2013 Burnaby Writers Society Writing Contest. Misc
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 ]
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.
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.
Marie Therese “Terry” Goulet is a Canadian historian who has written and spoken extensively on the subject of the Canadian aboriginal group the Métis. With her husband George who is Métis, Goulet has been an advocate for Métis identity in Canada and for the exoneration of early Canadian and Métis politician Louis Riel. In January 2018 ...