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Marie Annharte Baker (born 1942) is an Anishnabe poet and author, a cultural critic and activist, and a performance artist/contemporary storyteller.Marie Annharte Baker
World Poetry Movement, Retrieved 14 April 2016 Former surnames are Baker and Funmaker. Through books, poetry, essays, interviews and performance Annharte articulates and critiques life from western Canada, with a special focus on women, urban, indigenous, disabilities, academic, and poverty-centric (or "street") awareness and issues/foibles.
Marie Annharte Baker (born 1942) is an Anishnabe poet and author, a cultural critic and activist, and a performance artist/contemporary storyteller.Marie Annharte BakerWorld Poetry Movement, Retrieved 14 April 2016 Former surnames are Baker and Funmaker. Through books, poetry, essays, interviews and performance Annharte articulates and critiques life from western Canada, with a special focus on women, urban, indigenous, disabilities, academic, and poverty-centric (or "street") awareness and issues/foibles.
Life
Baker is fromLittle Saskatchewan First Nation
Little Saskatchewan First Nation ( oj, Kaakiiskakamigaag) is a First Nations community in the Interlake Region of central Manitoba. Its main reserve is the Little Saskatchewan 48.
It is a signatory of Treaty 2
''Treaty 2'' was entered in to ...
and she was born in 1942 and grew up in Winnipeg. Her father was Irish and her mother was Anishinabe. Marie Annharte Baker was considered to be part of a specific Anishinabe nation, the Obibwa. She would spend her holidays with her Anishinabe grandparents on a reservation in Manitoba. She received what she considered an unsuccessful education at Brandon College, the University of British Columbia and the Simon Fraser University during the 1960s. Baker considers herself self-taught but she did return to education in the 1970s and this included a degree in English for the University of Winnipeg. After graduating, Baker became involved in Native American activism, and taught Native Studies are multiple colleges in Minneapolis. Baker was one of the first people in North America to teach a class entirely on Native American women. After her teaching career, Baker returned to Winnipeg and began to work as a community family advocate.
She has been associated with (studied or taught at) the University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg, Brandon University
Brandon University is a university located in the city of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, with an enrollment of 3375 (2020) full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate students. The current location was founded on July 13, 1899, as Brandon Co ...
, and University of Minnesota. She has collaborated with or co-founded numerous groups of community-based writer activists, including Regina Aboriginal Writers Group and the Aboriginal Writers Collective of Manitoba. She was a founding member of the Canadian Indian Youth Council. Presently, she is organizing Nokomis Storyteller Theatre which features comic/clown and puppet performances.
Books
* ''Being on the Moon'', Vancouver: Polestar, 1990; Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2000 * ''Coyote Columbus Cafe'', Winnipeg: Moonprint, 1994 * ''Exercises in Lip Pointing'', Vancouver: New Star Books, 2003 * ''Indigena Awry'', Vancouver: New Star Books, 2013See also
* Canadian literature *Canadian poetry
Canadian poetry is poetry of or typical of Canada. The term encompasses poetry written in Canada or by Canadian people in the official languages of English and French, and an increasingly prominent body of work in both other European and Indigenou ...
* List of Canadian poets
* List of Canadian writers
* List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
References
External links
* http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A161 {{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, Marie Annharte 1942 births Living people Canadian women essayists Canadian women poets First Nations poets First Nations women writers Ojibwe people People from Interlake Region, Manitoba Writers from Manitoba 20th-century Canadian essayists 21st-century Canadian essayists 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers 20th-century First Nations writers 21st-century First Nations writers