As one of Canada's foremost Indigenous authors and storytellers, Richard Wagamese has been a professional writer since 1979. His debut novel, Keeper 'n Me, came out in 1994 and won the Alberta Writers Guild's Best Novel Award. His novel Indian Horse was defended by Carol Huynh on Canada Reads in 2013. "I know that if I don't look at my whole history and embrace the dark and hard parts, I don't know my own story," he told CBC in 2012. "And if I don't know my own story, I can't heal myself."

Source: CBC News March 11, 2017 15:23 UTC