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Tomson Highway
Spanish edition.
Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play
Nominated for the Governor General’s Award
This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful…
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Presented in the original Cree text!
First published in English, with several major awards and nominations:
Nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Dora Mavor Moore Award winner…
With his signature irreverence, Tomson Highway explores themes central to the human condition: language, creation, sex and gender, humour, and death.
Tomson Highway is one of Canada’s foremost playwrights and novelists. In this title, he addresses a theme that is central to much of his work: the ways that Canadian culture…
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Playwright, novelist, polyglot, pianist, trickster Tomson Highway’s Henry Kreisel Lecture on the importance of multilingualism.
Retells one of the most tragic cases of cultural genocide among Native peoples of British Columbia. Cast of 4 women.
First new play in six years from Canada’s most famous First Nations playwright. This latest play is a riveting musical.
This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving…
A lyrical tale of survival in a strange, hostile world
Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play and nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award when first published in 1988, The Rez Sisters has gone on…
Nominee, Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
Dora Mavor Moore Award winner, 1989
Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award winner, 1990
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing tells another story…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
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Written in both Cree and English, this tale recounts a ice fishing trip that turns into a wild ride when the sled dogs spot a fox.
Highway’s text has a graceful simplicity, evoking the deep pleasure of brothers at play in a serene, remote setting. – Horn Book
At once a celebration of heritage, the wilderness…
The story of a wingless little mosquito from Manitoba has all the whimsy and wise humor any audience could ask for. The ageless theme of a misfit, who finds her…
Atihko nikamon is high Cree. Ateek oonagamoon is a local dialect of that high Cree. The English equivalent would be like the difference between I am going to try and…
Profiles Aboriginal Canadians telling their own stories about their own people in their own voice from their own perspective.
Shirley Sterling
An honest look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it - 30th anniversary edition.
An outlandish musical tale featuring a town full of rabbits and eight jazzy songs in Cree! Once upon a magical time, a young rabbit named Weeskits hurried home to Kisoos--a…
Champion et Ooneemeetoo Okimasis, jeunes Cris du nord du Manitoba, sont arraches a leur famille et places dans une ecole catholique residentielle du Sud. Alienes par une culture qu'on leur…
Tomson Highway,Mel Anastasiou,Jm Landels
Genre-busting Fiction. Short stories, poetry, and comics you can’t put down!
What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the…
