Lee Maracle
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Lee Maracle (born 1950) is a Canadian First Nations poet and author from the Squamish nation. She was one of the first aboriginal people to be published in the early 1970s. Maracle has since become one of the most prolific aboriginal authors in Canada and a recognized authority on issues pertaining to aboriginal people and aboriginal literature. She is an award-winning poet, novelist, performance storyteller, scriptwriter, actor and keeper/mythmaker among the Squamish people.
Maracle was founder of the En’owkin International School of Writing in Penticton, British Columbia, and the cultural director of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto. A prolific writer and a much in demand speaker, Maracle's work includes more than 100 articles, poems, short stories and several books, the most widely known being Ravensong, I Am Woman, Sojourner’s Truth, Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel and Daughters are Forever.
Maracle has given hundreds of speeches on political, historical, and feminist sociological topics related to native people, and conducted dozens of workshops on personal and cultural reclamation. She has served as a consultant on First Nations’ self-government and has an extensive history in community development. She has been described as “a walking history book” and an international expert on Canadian First Nations culture and history.
Maracle has taught at the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Southern Oregon University and since 2001 has been serving as professor of Canadian culture at Western Washington University. She currently lives in Bellingham, Washington.
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Novels
- I am Woman - 1988
- Sojourner's Truth and Other Stories - 1990
- Bobbie Lee: Indian Rebel - 1990
- Sundogs - 1992
- Ravensong - 1993
- Daughters are Forever - 2002
- Will's Garden - 2002
Poetry
- Bent Box - 2000
Collaborations
- My Home As I Remember
- We Get Our Living Like Milk from the Land
- Telling It: Women and Language Across Cultures - 1990
- Reconciliation: The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples Vol 13
Anthologies
- Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples Vol 2
- Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples Vol 3
- Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples Vol 10
- Satin Shorts
- Returing the Gaze: Essays on Racism, Feminisn and Politics
- Giving Back/First Nations Perspective on Cultural Practice
- Bertha
- An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English
- Frictions: Stories by Women
- First Peoples Voices
- Children of the Dragonfly
- Our Bit of Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature
- Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native American Women's Writings of North America
- First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim - 1999 (American Book Award 1999, Before Columbus Foundation)
- 75 Readings Plus
Essays and Criticism on the Writing of Lee Maracle
- Contemporary American Indian Literatures and the Oral Tradition Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez
- Contemporary American Indian Writing: Unsettling Literature Dee Horne and Peter Lang
Notable Family
- Columpa Bobb, daughter (actor/playwright/poet)
- Sid Bobb, son (actor)
- Chief Dan George, grandfather (Salish Chief/actor)