Cree playwright Tomson Highway surveys the first wave of Indigenous writers published in Canada. From the Mi'qmaw of Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island to the Loucheux of Old Crow, Yukon, From Oral to Written profiles Aboriginal Canadians telling their own stories about their own people in their own voices from their own perspective.
Tomson Highway was artistic director of Native Earth, Canada’s longest-running professional Indigenous theatre company, for much of the period under discussion and encouraged the production of some of the writers profiled here.
