Speakers Bureau of the IITC & AIM
This page has brief biographies of the speakers who are available through the Speakers Bureau of the International Indian Treaty Council & American Indian Movement. They include: Charles Abourezk, Clyde Bellecourt (Ojibwe Nation), Vernon Bellecourt (Ojibwe Nation), Edward Benton-Benai (Ojibwe), Nathan Keliikui Brown (Hawaiian Kingdom), Andrea Carmen (Yaqul) , Robert Cruz (Tohono Q'odham), Lenny Foster (Diné), Tom Goldtooth (Diné), Antonio Gonzales (Seri/Chicano) , Mike Haney (Seminole/Sioux), David Harrison (Athabascan), Hinéwirangi (Maori Nation, Aotearoa), Puksu Igualikinya (Kuna Nation), Sarah James (Gwich'in Athabascan Nation), Dennis "Bumpy" Kanahele (Hawaiian Kingdom), Jim Main Sr. (Gros Ventre Nation), Ted Means (Oglala Lakota), William Means (Oglala Lakota), Rigoberta Menchu (Maya Quiché), Charles Robertson Sr. (Anishinabe/Dakota), Yvonne Swan (Sinixti Arrow Lakes), Charlene Teters (Spokane Nation), Chanté Westerman (Sinixti Arrow Lakes/Dakota), Floyd Red Crow Westerman (Dakota).
Aboriginal Women
From the web site, "This pamphlet profiles some of the countless dynamic Aboriginal women in Canada today who are exceptional achievers in their particular fields." The profiles include Melanie Goodchild (Ojibway), Brandy Kanayuk (Inuit), Sharla Howard (Mohawk), Mary "Jill" Johnson, B.Sc. (Micmac), Renae Morriseau (Saulteaux/Cree), Mary Jane McCallum, D.M.D. (Cree), Miriam McNab, B.A., M.A. (Cree), Stephanie Redman (Dakota/Sioux), Janet Smylie, B.A., M.D. (Métis), and Stacey Porter, B.A. (Shuswap). From the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada web site.
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
This site includes biographies of more than twenty-five Indigenous/Native American women writers.
Ojibway
Role Models
This page has brief biographies
of distinguished Ojibways: author Louise Erdrich, NHL hockey player Chris
Simon, elder/teacher/storyteller Maude Kegg, artist Norval Morrisseau,
elder/activist/writer/spiritual leader Edward Benton-Banai, author/storyteller/scholar
Basil Johnston, activist/writer Winona LaDuke, elder/tribal chairman Roger
Jourdain, activist Clyde Bellecourt, writer/poet Jim Northrup, warrior
Leonard Peltier, author/scholar Gerald Vizenor, NHL Coach of the Year Ted
Nolan, and activist Dennis Banks.
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