Nov 11 In 2008, Joseph Boyden won the $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his second novel “Through Black Spruce,” a portrait of contemporary aboriginal life and family struggles that ensue after a beautiful young woman goes missing. In 2021, Indigenous author Lee Maracle, who championed the stories of native women to change the face of Canadian literature, died. A family friend said the acclaimed author, poet and teacher died at a hospital in Vancouver at age 71. She was one of the first Indigenous authors to be published in Canada in the early 1970s. She held posts at a number of Canadian universities and won accolades. Nov 12 In 1992, Canada’s Inuit accepted a $580 million federal land claim settlement giving them control over a large part of the eastern…
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