Lee Maracle
| Lee Maracle | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | writer |
Lee Maracle was a person mentioned in Anishinabek News.[1]
In Anishinabek News
- Home community: Stó:lō Nation[2]
- November 2013: Lee Maracle participated in the Aboriginal Speakers Series and read from her book Ravensong.[3]
- November 2017: She participated as a speaker at the Mercury Justice Now event held in Toronto in November 2017.[4]
- January 2018: She was named as a recipient of the Order of Canada in the same announcement as Jeanette Corbiere Lavell.[5]
- March 2019: She facilitated the Wording Transformation writing workshop at Big Medicine Studio in February 2019. Her literary career began with the 1975 publication of Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel and includes the collaborative book Hope Matters. She has spent nearly thirty years using writing workshops to help Indigenous people reclaim their voices and restore self-belief.[2]
- September 2019: She will join John Ralston Saul at the Jaipur Literary Festival Toronto to talk about the book The Comeback. The author expressed skepticism regarding government progress on Indigenous rights, citing the long-term mercury poisoning at Grassy Narrows.[6]
- June 2020: She was a featured speaker alongside Murray Sinclair during the inaugural REDTalks webinar in May 2020. Her contributions to the Wisdom Keeper Series were scheduled for a rebroadcast on June 20, 2020.[7]
- March 2023: Leanne Simpson credited the writing of Lee Maracle for allowing her to see her own experiences and family life reflected in literature.[8]
- October 2025: She told Tanya Talaga that she needed to write poetry. The article refers to this person as deceased (no date of death is given).[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "JUNO Award-winning musician and award-winning Anishinaabe storyteller co-write new single", Anishinabek News, 17 October 2025 (archived copy; original article).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Words dance in Lee Maracle’s writing workshop", Anishinabek News, 15 March 2019 (archived copy; original article).
- ↑ "Early Anishinaabe had their own ‘powerpoint’", Anishinabek News, 8 November 2013 (archived copy; original article).
- ↑ "Grassy Narrows still waiting for clean up", Anishinabek News, 16 November 2017 (archived copy; original article).
- ↑ "Anishinabek Nation Citizenship Commissioner Jeanette Corbiere Lavell to receive Order of Canada", Anishinabek News, 2 January 2018 (archived copy; original article).
- ↑ "Saul to discuss The Comeback at Toronto literary event", Anishinabek News, 26 September 2019 (archived copy; original article).
- ↑ "Red Sky Performance offers wisdom, insight, and humour to inaugural session of the Wisdom Keeper Series", Anishinabek News, 4 June 2020 (archived copy; original article).
- ↑ "Anishinaabe authors share knowledge during Trent University’s 47th Elders and Traditional Peoples Gathering", Anishinabek News, 22 March 2023 (archived copy; original article).