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Great women from our First Nations

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  • Publisher:
    Second Story Press, 2007
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Fournel, Kelly
    Date:
    Created
    2007
    Summary:

    Profiles of ten outstanding women leaders, including Suzanne Rochon-Burnett, a Métis broadcaster, journalist and First Nations advocate, winner of the Governor General’s Award for her work on Native Women’s rights; Susan Aglukark, Inuit singer and songwriter; and Emily Pauline Johnson—Canada’s first published First Nations poet. All of these trailblazing women are role models who have raised the profile of indigenous culture in North America.

    Genre:
    Canadian nonfiction, Indigenous materials, Juvenile nonfiction
    Subject(s): Role models | North America | Indigenous peoples | Indigenous women | First Nations women
    Original Publisher: [S.l.], Second Story Press
    Language(s): English