National Day for Truth and Reconciliation / Orange Shirt Day
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation / Orange Shirt Day
Michelle Good Presentation Event
Getting Under the Myth of Canadian History
Sept. 30 | 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. MT
Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, Rozsa Centre, UCalgary
Hosted by Dr. Michael Hart, PhD, vice-provost (Indigenous Engagement), with special remarks from UCalgary President Ed McCauley and Calgary Public Library CEO Sarah Meilleur, BA’01. Piikani Elder Reg Crowshoe, Hon. LLD’01, will open and close the event in a good way.
Michelle Good, Red Pheasant Cree Nation
Michelle Good is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working for Indigenous organizations for twenty-five years, she obtained a law degree and advocated for residential school survivors for over fourteen years. Good earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia while still practicing law and managing her own law firm. Her poems, short stories, and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada, and her poetry was included on two lists of the best Canadian poetry in 2016 and 2017.
Five Little Indians, her first novel, won the HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Award, the Evergreen Award, the City of Vancouver Book of the Year Award, and Canada Reads 2022. It was also longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a finalist for the Writer’s Trust Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes. On October 7, 2022, Simon Fraser University granted her an Honorary Doctor of Letters. Her new work, Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous life in Canada was released May 30, 2023, and on October 4, 2023, was shortlisted for the Writers Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.