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Marie Annharte Baker (born 1942) is an
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
The Anishinaabeg (adjectival: Anishinaabe) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples present in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. They include the Ojibwe (including Saulteaux and Oji-Cree), Odawa, Potawatomi, ...
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 from Little Saskatchewan First Nation and she was born in 1942 and grew up inWinnipeg
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. Her father was Irish and her mother was Anishinabe
The Anishinaabeg (adjectival: Anishinaabe) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples present in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. They include the Ojibwe (including Saulteaux and Oji-Cree), Odawa, Potawatomi ...
. 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
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and the Simon Fraser University
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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
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. 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
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, Brandon University, and University of Minnesota
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. 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
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References
External links
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