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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.
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]
Julie Flett is a Cree-Métis author and illustrator, known for her work in children's literature centered around the life and cultures of Indigenous Canadians. [1] Flett is best known for her illustrations in books such as Little You, and When We were Alone, as well as for her written work in books such as Birdsong.
The All Complete Aboriginal Show Extravaganza (1994) Girl Who Loved Her Horses (1995) The Baby Blues (1995) 400 Kilometres (1996) Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth (1996) alterNatives (1999) Toronto@DreamersRock.com (1999) The Boy in the Treehouse (2000) The Buz’Gem Blues (2001) Sucker Falls (2001) Raven Stole the Sun (2004)
Bobbi Lee Maracle OC (born Marguerite Aline Carter; July 2, 1950 – November 11, 2021) was an Indigenous Canadian writer and academic of the Stó꞉lō nation. Born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, she left formal education after grade 8 to travel across North America, attending Simon Fraser University on her return to Canada.
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]
Olive Patricia Dickason CM (1920–2011) [2] was a Métis historian and journalist. She was the first scholar in Canada to receive a PHD in Indigenous history. She is known for writing one of the first textbooks about First Nations in Canada, Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from the Earliest Times.
Michael Kusugak has written picture books, young readers’ novels and chapter books, and one non-fiction picture book. A Promise is a Promise. Co-authored by Robert Munsch. Annick Press. 1989. ISBN 978-1-773-21294-4. {}: CS1 maint: others ; Baseball Bats for Christmas. Illustrated by Vladyana Langer Krykorka. Annick Press. 1990.