Daniel Heath Justice is an American-born
Canadian
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academic and citizen of the
Cherokee Nation
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. He is professor of
First Nations
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and Indigenous Studies and English at the
University of British Columbia
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. He started his studies at
University of Northern Colorado
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and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
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. He began his career at the
University of Toronto
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, where he taught English and worked in association with the Aboriginal Studies Program.
Justice is the author of ''Why Indigenous Literatures Matter'' (2018) (
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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), ''Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History'' (2006) (
University of Minnesota Press
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), as well as his Indigenous fantasy trilogy, ''The Way of Thorn & Thunder - Kynship'' (2005), ''Wyrwood'' (2006), and ''Dreyd'' (2007) which was published by
Kegedonce Press
Kegedonce Press is an Indigenous publishing house in Neyaashiinigmiing Reserve No. 27 (Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, Cape Croker), Ontario, Canada, owned by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm. Started in 1993, it is one of only a handful of dedicat ...
.
Awards
''Why Indigenous Literatures Matter'' (2018) is the winner of the NAISA (Native American and Indigenous Studies Association) Award for Subsequent Book published in 2018. It also received the 2019 PROSE Award, granted by the Association of American Publishers, in the category of Literature and was nominated for the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism from the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL). In 2015, Justice was awarded the UBC Killam Research Prize in recognition of his leadership in the field of Indigenous Literary Studies and for his many contributions to it, including ''Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History'' (2006), ''The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature'' (co-edited with James H. Cox, 2014), and ''Why Indigenous Literature Matters'' (2018). In 2010, he was awarded the Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize at the
University of Toronto
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. James Cox of the
University of Texas at Austin
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stated that "Daniel has devoted his life and work to advocating for the civil and human rights of the silences and dispossessed peoples of our world." The University of Toronto added that Justice's "positive and lasting impact is felt directly at the U of T through his one-on-one work with native students, his ability to bring previously inexperienced young people to thinking about social justice and creative activism against oppression and his encouragement of both graduate and undergraduate students to take on community service as part of classes."
Justice was made an officer of the
Order of Canada
The Order of Canada (french: Ordre du Canada; abbreviated as OC) is a Canadian state order and the second-highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit.
To coincide with the ...
in 2021.
Books
* ''Why Indigenous Literatures Matter'' (2018)
* ''Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History'' (2006)
* ''Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective''
* ''Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature''
* ''The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature''
* ''Badger'' (2015)
* ''W'daub Awae, Speaking True: A Kegedonce Press Anthology''
* ''The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles'' (2011) (''Kynship'' (2005), ''Wyrwood'' (2006) ''Dreyd'' (2007))
See also
*
List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
This is a list of notable writers who are Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
This list includes authors who are Alaskan Native, American Indian, First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and Indigenous peoples of Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, a ...
*
Native American Studies
References
External links
Daniel Heath Justice websiteDaniel Heath Justice articles on The ConversationDaniel Heath Justice on Twitter
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American emigrants to Canada
American fantasy writers
American male non-fiction writers
American male novelists
Canadian fantasy writers
Canadian male non-fiction writers
Cherokee Nation academics
Cherokee writers
Living people
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian non-fiction writers
Canadian gay writers
LGBT Native Americans
American LGBT novelists
Canadian LGBT novelists
Native American novelists
21st-century Native Americans
21st-century Canadian LGBT people
Officers of the Order of Canada
American gay writers
Gay novelists