Jeannette Armstrong

Agnieszka Rzepa (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.5: Indigenous Writing and Culture of North America - Canada.
Vol. editors: Joshua Bartlett (High Point University), Renate Eigenbrod (University of Manitoba), Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 1948
Activity 1985-ongoing

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Cultural Identities

First Nations/Indigenous Canadian

Activities

Primary

Artist
Children's/Young Adult writer
Novelist
Poet

Other

Educationalist
Revolutionary, Activist

Resources

Armstrong's Works

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Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan) is one of the best-known Native Canadian writers. She is also a visual artist, sculptor, an activist and educator. She is one of the first Native women in Canada to publish a novel:

Slash

(1985). Her second novel,

Whispering in Shadows

, was published in 2000. Apart from the two novels, she has published a collection of poetry, three books for children, and numerous essays and speeches on Native life and beliefs, the rights of the Indigenous people, and on ecology and Native aesthetics. Armstrong is also well-known as a co-founder and executive director of the Indigenous post-secondary educational institution En’owkin Centre (Pentincton, British Columbia), and a co-founder, director and an instructor of the En’owkin International School of Writing…

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Citation: Rzepa, Agnieszka. "Jeannette Armstrong". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 July 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12823, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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