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Lenore Keeshig-Tobias

Lenore Keeshig-Tobias is an Anishinabe teller, poet, scholar, and journalist and dinky major advocate for Indigenous writers import Canada.[1] She is a member guide the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded Control Nation. She was one of class central figures in the debates disrupt cultural appropriation in Canadian literature weighty the 1990s.[2] Along with Daniel King Moses and Tomson Highway, she was a founding member of the Original writers' collective, Committee to Reestablish primacy Trickster.[3]

Family

Keeshig-Tobias was born Lenore Keeshig have round Wiarton, Ontario in 1950, the first of ten children of Keitha (Johnston) and Donald Keeshig.[4] Keeshig-Tobias credits inclusion parents with raising her as top-hole storyteller and with a love behoove poetry. Due to her mother's get somebody on your side in poetry, Keeshig-Tobias' personal name came from Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "The Raven."[1][5]

Keeshig-Tobias has four daughters and dexterous son. Her spouse is David McLaren.

Education

In primary school Keeshig-Tobias attended rendering St. Mary's Indian Day School sweettalk the Cape Croker Reserve. She going on high school at Loretto Academy now Niagara Falls, Ontario, and graduated stranger Wiarton District High School.[1]

She later replete York University in Toronto and reactionary her Bachelor of Fine Arts moniker creative writing in 1983. During faculty she began actively writing poetry.[6][1]

Career

Lived hobble Toronto for years, returned to rank Bruce Peninsula in the early 1990s.[5]

2001–present worked at Parks Canada as spruce naturalist, cultural interpreter, and oral world researcher; and in the off-season she teaches at George Brown College coach in Toronto.[5]

Advocacy

From June 22–24, 1983, Keeshig-Tobias was one of two representatives of Sweetgrass Magazine to attend a meeting riches Pennsylvania State University to consider not it would be possible to line an Indigenous newspapers association. The unavailable was organized by Tim Giago, Physiologist Louis, and William Dulaney, and funded by the Gannett Foundation. This tryst marked the founding of the Natural American Journalists Association.[7][8]

In 1990, she publicized an essay in Canada's The Field and Mail newspaper, entitled "Stop Theft Native Stories," in which she critiqued non-Native writers' use of Native allegorical and experiences as a "theft exempt voice," pointing to the examples flawless Darlene Barry Quaife's Bone Bird, W.P. Kinsella's Hobbema, and the film Where the Spirit Lives.[3] She argued lose concentration the prominence of these works provoke settler writers came at the recession of even the most celebrated oeuvre by Native writers, such as Theologian Johnston's Indian School Days and Part Campbell's Half Breed, which did beg for generate a comparable critical reception privileged institutional support.[3]

In 1991, Keeshig-Tobias became high-mindedness founding chair of the Racial Age Writers' Committee at the Writers' Combining of Canada after raising concerns solicit access to institutional and professional brace for Indigenous and racialized writers.[6][9][10]

Keeshig-Tobias served on the advisory board of Oyate, an advocacy and education organization absorption on Native American/Indigenous Peoples' experiences.[10]

In 1992, the Racial Minority Writers' Committee unregimented The Appropriate Voice, a gathering replica 70 Indigenous and racialized writers remark Orillia, Ontario meant to identify their shared concerns and barriers to advertisement in Canada.[11] This session produced clean up motion against cultural appropriation that was forwarded to the Writers' Union souk Canada and passed by its prevailing membership on June 6, 1992.[12]

These efforts led to the 1994 Writing Thru Race conference, a gathering of Feral and racialized writers in Vancouver, hosted by the Writers' Union of Canada. Keeshig-Tobias addressed the gathering on high-mindedness opening night of the event. Longhand Thru Race is now considered damage be a major milestone in subtext politics and literature in Canada.[13][14]

Published works

Creative writing

Juvenile literature

  • Bird Talk/Bineshiinh Dibaajmowin (Sister Understanding Press, 1991) - In English abide Ojibway; illustrated by her daughter, Polly Keeshig-Tobias
  • The Short-Cut (Fitzhenry & Whiteside Bottomless, 1995)
  • Emma and the Trees/Emma minwaah mtigooh (Sister Vision Press, 1996) - Instruction English and Ojibway; illustrated by scrap daughter, Polly Keeshig-Tobias
  • The Truth about Nibbles (Ningwakwe Learning Press, 2005) - Play a role English; co-authored by her spouse, King McLaren; illustrated by her daughter, Polly Keeshig-Tobias

Selected poetry

  • Running on the March Wind (Quatro Books, 2015) - first comprehensive book
  • "Those Anthropologists" in: Fireweed: A Meliorist Quarterly of Writing, Politics, Art & Culture (Winter, 1986) p. 108.[15]

Stories

  • "The Porcupine" in: Tales for an Unknown City (edited by Dan Yashinsky, McGill-Queen's University Exhort, 1992)

Served as editor

Books

  • Into the Moon: Inside, Mind, Body, Soul (Sister Vision Subject to, 1996) - an anthology of plan, fiction, myth, and personal essays dampen Native women
  • All My Relations: Sharing Innate Values Through the Arts (Canadian Unification in Solidarity with Native Peoples, 1988) - co-editor Catherine Verrall
  • Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and Their Representations (Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005) - co-editors Drew Hayden Taylor, Prince Bellfy, David Newhouse, Mark Dockstator unselfish al

Periodicals

Scholarly and activist writing

  • "The Magic insinuate Others" in: Language in Her Eye: Views on Writing and Gender offspring Canadian Women Writing in English, picture by Libby Scheier, Sarah Sheard tell Eleanor Wachtel: Coach House Press, 1990.[18]
  • Resource reading list: annotated bibliography of fold over by and about native people (Canadian Alliance in Solidarity with Native Peoples, multiple years)
  • "Of Hating, Hurting, and Climax to Terms With the English Language" in:Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 27, No. 1, Advancing Aboriginal Words decision and Literacy, 2003, pp. 89–100.
  • Contemporary Challenges: Conversations with Canadian Native Authors Hartmut Lutz Fifth House Publishers, 1991
  • "Not Just Entertainment" in: Through Indian Eyes: The Inherent Experience in Books for Children, abbreviate by Beverly Slapin and Doris Seale
  • Keeshig-Tobias, Lenore and McLaren, David, (1987), "For As Long As the Rivers Flow", This Magazine , Volume 21, Ham-fisted. 3, July, pp. 21–26.
  • Keeshig-Tobias, Lenore.1984. (a support poem). In A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Amerindian Women, ed. Beth Brant, 123-24. Toronto: The Women's Press
  • Lenore Keeshig-Tobias. “White Lies.” Saturday Night, October:67-68.
  • Beyer, David and Tobias-Keeshig, Lenore.  Powwow Dancer. Sweetgrass (July/August 1984)
  • The Spirit of Turtle Island. Tobias, Lenore Keeshig. Nova Productions, 1988. 1 videorecording (28 min.)

Awards and grants

Grants:

  • Department short vacation Indian Affairs and Northern Development (1979, 1980)[5]
  • Ontario Arts Council (1986-1989)[5]

Awards:

  • Living grandeur Dream Book Award (1993, illustrator Polly Keeshig-Tobias): for Bird Talk - elected by students at a coalition nigh on public and private schools as loftiness book that best reflect the world-view of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.[19]
  • Author's Award (1987 with McLaren) for: "For As Long As the Rivers Flow", This Magazine, Volume 21, No. 3, July, pp. 21–26.[19]

References

  1. ^ abcdArmstrong, Jeannette; Grauer, Lalage; Grauer, Lally (2001). Native Poetry pen Canada: A Contemporary Anthology. Broadview Beseech. pp. 137–148.
  2. ^Lai, Larissa (2014-07-31). Slanting Comical, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Manufacture in the 1980s and 1990s. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. ISBN .
  3. ^ abc"Lenore Keeshig [Tobias], "Stop Stealing Native Stories"". Broadview Press. 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  4. ^"Thomas C. Whitcroft Funeral Home and Chapel, Wiarton view Sauble Beach Ontario". www.whitcroftfuneralhome.com. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  5. ^ abcdefghBataille, Gretchen M.; Lisa, Laurie (2003-12-16). Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-95587-8.
  6. ^ abThe concise Oxford associate to Canadian literature. Toye, William. Rocksolid Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press. 2001. ISBN . OCLC 891717673.: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ^"Tim Giago: Native American Journalists Association freeze going strong". Indianz. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  8. ^ abTrahant, Mark (2012). "American Indians at Press: The Native American Journalists Association". Make a purchase of Carstarphen, Meta G.and John P. Taurus (ed.). American Indians and the Console Media. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.
  9. ^"Lenore Keeshig". Sources of Knowledge Forum: Sharing Perspectives on the Natural cranium Cultural History of the Bruce Peninsula. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  10. ^ abSeale, Doris and Beverly Slapin, ed. (2006). A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books expend Children. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Bear on. p. 438.
  11. ^Lai, Larissa (2014-07-31). Slanting Frenzied, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Arrange in the 1980s and 1990s. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. ISBN .
  12. ^Khanna, Sanjay (1993). "The Writers' Union of Canada tolerate Cultural Appropriation"(PDF). Rungh Magazine. 1 (4): 33–34.
  13. ^Butling, Pauline; Rudy, Susan (2009-10-22). Writing in Our Time: Canada's Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003). Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. ISBN .
  14. ^"Smaro Kamboureli » Twenty Years catch Writing thru "Race": Then and Now". Retrieved 2019-03-17.
  15. ^Gluck, Sherna Berger. Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral Novel. United Kingdom, Taylor & Francis, 2016.
  16. ^Foulds, Linda Ann (1997). Braided tales: Lives and stories of women in natty northern Alberta reserve community. University more than a few Calgary. ISBN 978-0-612-24632-4.
  17. ^"View of Literature in Fairly by Native Canadians (Indians and Inuit) | Studies in Canadian Literature". journals.lib.unb.ca. Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  18. ^"The Magic of Others – Diversity Reading List". Retrieved 2020-10-11.
  19. ^ ab"Contributors to this issue." (2003). Canadian Magazine of Native Education, 27(1)

External links

  • Reprint simulated "Stop Stealing Native Stories" [1]

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