Helen Agger grew up in Namegosibiing Trout Lake, Ontario, the ancestral homeland of her mother's people. With their Norwegian-born father setting their educational goals, Helen and her siblings lived ...

Peggy MacTaggart is a Metis with close ties to the Eagle Lake First Nations of Northern Ont. as well as Wabigoon First Nation, Ont. She moved to Quebec City in 1991 to take care of her aging parents. ...

Beatrice Mosionier (formerly Culleton) was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba. The youngest of four children, she grew up in foster homes. Following the second suicide in her family, she decided to write ...

Andrea Walsh is a visual anthropologist who specializes in 20th-century and contemporary aboriginal art and visual culture in Canada, as well as theoretical and methodological approaches to visual research. ...

Robert Arthur Alexie was born and raised in Fort McPherson in Canada's Northwest Territories. He became the chief of the Tetlit Gwich'in of Fort McPherson, served two terms as vice president of the Gwich'in ...

Jack Forbes recently retired as a professor, director and chair at the Department of Native Studies at the University of California. He received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award for ...

Harold Eustache is a Shuswap member of the North Thompson Indian Band. Shuswap Journey is based on an old legend which was passed down from Harold's great-great-aunt to his father and then to him. Harold ...

Sandra Laronde hails from the Teme-Augama-Anishnaabe (People of the Deep Water) in Temagami, Ontario, and resides in Toronto. As the founder and artistic producer of Native Women in the Arts, Sandra works ...

Hilaria Supa Huaman has devoted more than twenty years to social and political activism in Peru. She works for environmental protection and the multicultural and multilingual identity of Peruvians. Before ...