VANCOUVER —
Sto:lo author Lee Maracle, who championed the tales of Indigenous girls to alter the face of Canadian literature, has died.
Household pal Michaela Washburnsays the acclaimed creator, poet and trainer died Thursday at a hospital in Vancouver at age 71.
Friends and admirers flooded social media with tributes to Maracle’s writing, activism and mentorship, with many hailing her as a foremother of Indigenous feminist literature.
One of many first Indigenous authors to be revealed in Canada within the early Nineteen Seventies, Maracle blended fiction, non-fiction, poetry and conventional storytelling to provide a prolific physique of labor, together with such seminal titles as “Bobbi Lee,” “I Am Lady” and “Ravensong.”
She was unflinching in difficult the colonial and patriarchal underpinnings of the Canadian canon, with a lot of her books depicting Indigenous girls straining in opposition to these cultural myths to reclaim their very own tales.
She held posts at quite a lot of Canadian universities, and received accolades together with Ontario’s Premier’s Award for Excellence within the Arts, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Order of Canada.
