Name Lee Maracle Role Poet | ||
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Books Ravensong, I am woman, Celia's Song, Daughters Are Forever, Bobbi Lee - Indian rebel Similar People Jeannette Armstrong, Thomas King, Columpa Bobb, Tomson Highway, Eden Robinson | ||
Education Simon Fraser University Zodiac Sign Cancer Died November 11, 2021 (aged 71) Surrey, British Columbia, Canada Born July 2, 1950 North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Spouse Raymond Bobb Dennis Maracle | ||
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Bobbi Lee Maracle OC (born Marguerite Aline Carter; July 2, 1950 – November 11, 2021) was an Indigenous Canadian writer and academic of the Stó꞉lō nation. Born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, she left formal education after grade 8 to travel across North America, attending Simon Fraser University on her return to Canada. Her first book, an autobiography called Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel, was published in 1975. She wrote fiction, non-fiction, and criticism and held various academic positions. Maracle's work focused on the lives of Indigenous people, particularly women, in contemporary North America. As an influential writer and speaker, Maracle fought for those oppressed by sexism, racism, and capitalist exploitation.
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- Lee maracle speaking at may day assembly 2011
- Early life
- Career
- Essays and criticism on the writing of Lee Maracle
- Notable family
- Death
- References
Lee maracle speaking at may day assembly 2011
Early life
The granddaughter of Chief Dan George, Maracle was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1950 and grew up in the neighbouring city of North Vancouver as one of the first aboriginal children to be allowed to attend a normal state school. She dropped out of school and went to California where she did various jobs that included producing films and doing stand-up comedy. She returned to Canada and attended Simon Fraser University. She was one of the first Aboriginal people to be published in the early 1970s.
Career
Maracle was one of the most prolific aboriginal authors in Canada and a recognized authority on issues pertaining to aboriginal people and aboriginal literature. She was an award-winning poet, novelist, performance storyteller, scriptwriter, actor and keeper/mythmaker among the Stó:lō people.
Maracle was one of the founders of the En’owkin International School of Writing in Penticton, British Columbia and the cultural director of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto, Ontario.
Maracle gave 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 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. Her views (as broadcast 18 May 2014 on CBC Radio) are that the Canadian people (not the government, because Canada is an "illegitimate state") should accept responsibility for cultural genocide and the theft of the whole land from its aboriginal inhabitants.
Maracle taught at the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Southern Oregon University and has served as professor of Canadian culture at Western Washington University. She currently lives in Toronto, teaching at the University of Toronto First Nations House. She was the writer-in-residence at the University of Guelph.
In 2017, Maracle was presented the Bonham Centre Award from The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto, for her contributions to the advancement and education of issues around sexual identification.
Essays and criticism on the writing of Lee Maracle
Notable family
Death
She died on November 11, 2021, at Surrey Memorial Hospital in Surrey, British Columbia.