Lenore keeshig-tobias biography of martin

Lenore Keeshig-Tobias is an Anishinabe storyteller, poet, scholar, and journalist and a major advocate for Indigenous writers in Canada.^[1] She is a member of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation. She was one of the central figures in the debates over cultural appropriation in Canadian literature in the s.^[2] Along with Daniel David Moses and Tomson Highway, she was a founding member of the Indigenous writers' collective, Committee to Reestablish the Trickster.^[3]

Family

Keeshig-Tobias was born Lenore Keeshig in Wiarton, Ontario in , the eldest of ten children of Keitha (Johnston) and Donald Keeshig.^[4] Keeshig-Tobias credits her parents with raising her as a storyteller and with a love of poetry. Due to her mother's interest in poetry, Keeshig-Tobias' personal name came from Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "The Raven."^[1][5]

Keeshig-Tobias has four daughters and a son. Her spouse is David Mc