Canada: We Are the Story - Hardcover

by Richard Wagamese (Author), Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley (Illustrator)

Author Biography

RICHARD WAGAMESE was a multi-award-winning Ojibway writer from Wabaseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario, Canada. His bestselling novels include Indian Horse, which was a Canada Reads finalist, winner of the inaugural Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature and made into a feature film; and Medicine Walk. He was also the author of acclaimed memoirs, including For Joshua; One Native Life and One Story, One Song, which won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature; as well as a collection of personal reflections, Embers, which received the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award. He won the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media and Communications, the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize, the Canada Reads People's Choice Award and the Writers' Trust of Canada's Matt Cohen Award. Richard died on March 10, 2017, in Kamloops, BC.