Early life

Born in Vancouver

Vancouver

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, British Columbia

British Columbia

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, she grew up in the neighbouring city of North Vancouver

North Vancouver, British Columbia

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 and attended Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000...

. She was one of the first Aboriginal people

Aboriginal peoples in Canada

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 to be published in the early 1970s.

Career

Maracle is one of the most prolific aboriginal authors in Canada and a recognized authority on issues pertaining to aboriginal people and aboriginal literature. She is an award-winning poet, novelist, performance storyteller, scriptwriter, actor and keeper/mythmaker among the Stó:lō

Stó:lo

The Sto:lo , alternately written as Stó:lō, Stó:lô or Stó:lõ and historically as Staulo or Stahlo, and historically known and commonly referred to in ethnographic literature as the Fraser River Indians or Lower Fraser Salish, are a group of First Nations peoples inhabiting the Fraser Valley of...

 people.

Maracle was one of the founders of the En’owkin International School of Writing in Penticton, British Columbia

British Columbia

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 and the cultural director of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre

Centre for Indigenous Theatre

Founded in 1974 by the late James H. Buller, the Native Theatre School was started with the vision that Aboriginal people could create change in Canada through theatre. Buller was a noted opera and musical comedy singer....

 in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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.

Maracle has given hundreds of speeches on political, historical, and feminist sociological

Sociology

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 topics related to native people, and conducted dozens of workshops on personal and cultural reclamation. She has 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.

Maracle has taught at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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, University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo

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, Southern Oregon University

Southern Oregon University

is a public liberal arts college located in Ashland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1926, it was formerly known as Southern Oregon College and Southern Oregon State College . SOU offers criminology, natural sciences, including environmental science, Shakespearean studies and theatre arts programs...

 and has served as professor of Canadian culture at Western Washington University

Western Washington University

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. She currently lives in Toronto, teaching at the University of Toronto First Nations House. She most recently was the writer-in-residence at the University of Guelph

University of Guelph

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.

Fiction

• Sojourner's Truth and Other Stories - 1990
• Sundogs - 1991
• Ravensong - (Press Gang Publishers
  Press Gang Publishers
  Press Gang Publishing was a [feminist]] printing and publishing collective active in [Vancouver, BC, Canada between the early 1970s and 2002.-Early history:...
  
  )1993
• Daughters are Forever - 2002
• Will's Garden - 2002
• First Wives Club: Coast Salish Style - (Theytus Books Publishing) 2010

Non-Fiction

• Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel - 1975 (revised 1990)
• I am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism - 1988; Press Gang Publishers
  Press Gang Publishers
  Press Gang Publishing was a [feminist]] printing and publishing collective active in [Vancouver, BC, Canada between the early 1970s and 2002.-Early history:...
  
   1996
• Oratory: Coming to Theory - 1990

Collaborations

• My Home As I Remember
• We Get Our Living Like Milk from the Land
• Telling It: Women and Language Across Cultures - 1990 (with Betsy Warland, Sky Lee
  Sky Lee
  Sky Lee is a Canadian artist and novelist.Lee has published both feminist fiction and non-fiction and identifies as lesbian.-Personal life:...
  
   and Daphne Marlatt
  Daphne Marlatt
  Daphne Marlatt, née Buckle, CM , is a Canadian poet who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia....
  
  ) Press Gang Publishers
  Press Gang Publishers
  Press Gang Publishing was a [feminist]] printing and publishing collective active in [Vancouver, BC, Canada between the early 1970s and 2002.-Early history:...
  
  
• Reconciliation: The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples Vol 13

Anthologies

• Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples Vol 2
• Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples Vol 3
• Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples Vol 10
• Satin Shorts
• Returning the Gaze: Essays on Racism, Feminism and Politics
• Giving Back/First Nations Perspective on Cultural Practice
• Bertha
• An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English
• Frictions: Stories by Women
• First Peoples Voices
• Children of the Dragonfly
• Our Bit of Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature
• Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native American Women's Writings of North America
• First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim - 1999 (American Book Award
  American Book Award
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   1999, Before Columbus Foundation
  Before Columbus Foundation
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  )
• 75 Readings Plus
• Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literature

Essays and criticism on the writing of Lee Maracle

• Contemporary American Indian Literatures and the Oral Tradition Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez
• Contemporary American Indian Writing: Unsettling Literature Dee Horne
• "Raven's Plague: Pollution and Disease in Lee Maracle's Ravensong" Judith Leggatt in "Mosaic" 33.4. December 2000. pp. 163–178
• "Storying the Borderlands: Liminal Spaces and Narrative Strategies in Lee Maracle's Ravensong" Karen E. Macfarlane in "Creating Community: A Roundtable on Canadian Aboriginal Literature" ed. Renate Eigenbrod and Jo-Ann Episkenew. 2002, Theytus Books. pp 109–123.

Notable family

• Columpa Bobb
  Columpa Bobb
  Columpa C. Bobb is a Canadian photographer, actress, playwright, poet and teacher of Coastal Salish descent. She has been performing, writing plays, and teaching for 20 years....
  
  , daughter (actor/playwright/poet)
• Sid Bobb
  Sid Bobb
  -References:...
  
  , son (actor)
• Chief Dan George, grandfather (Salish Chief/actor)