Denise Lecoy is a member of the Penticton Indian Band. After obtaining her diploma in nursing in 1993, Denise worked in community health programming in both frontline and management capacities. A self-employed ...

Leanne Flett Kruger is Cree Métis. After graduating from the First Nations creative writing program of the En'owkin Centre, Leanne continued her studies in publishing at Simon Fraser University and then ...

Winona LaDuke is an Anishnaabe of the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. She founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project and served as Ralph Nader's presidential running mate for the Green Party ...

Stan Cuthand is an elder of the Little Pine First Nation. He was an Anglican priest for 25 years. Upon his retirement from the active priesthood, he taught Cree at the University of Regina moving to University ...

Mary Longman Aski-Piyesiwiskwew is a renowned Saulteaux visual artist from the Gordon Band near Punnichy, Saskatchewan. Her work has been exhibited in such venues as The National Art Gallery and The Museum ...

Stephen McGregor is Algonquin from the Kitigan Zibi Reserve at Maniwaki, Quebec. He is a strong advocate for the contributions and sacrifices of First Nations soldiers in Canada's wars overseas, a subject ...

Cherie Dimaline is a Métis author and editor whose award-winning fiction has been published and anthologized internationally. Her novels include Red Rooms, The Girl Who Grew A Galaxy, A Gentle Habit, ...

Julie Flett is a Cree Métis from Manitoba. Julie resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Illustrator Heather D. Holmlund has roots in the northern town of Fort Frances, Ontario, where she grew up. Her source of artistic vision has always been the spiritual essence of the Canadian landscape ...