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Jeannette Armstrong

Jeannette Armstrong is an award-winning novelist, activist and poet born on the Okanagan Reserve. Known for her literary work, Armstrong has always sought to change deeply biased misconceptions about Indigenous people. Her novel Slash is considered by many people to be the first novel by a First Nations woman. In 2013 she was appointed a Canada Research Chair in Okanagan Indigenous Knowledge and Philosophy to research, document, categorize and analyze Okanagan syilx oral literature in Nsyilxcn.

Books by Jeannette Armstrong

Okanagan Women’s Voices

Syilx and settler writing and relations, 1870s to 1960s

edited by Jeannette Armstrong, Lally Grauer & Janet MacArthur

Neekna and Chemai

by (author) Jeannette Armstrong
illustrated by Barbara Marchand

Dancing with the Cranes

by (author) Jeannette Armstrong
illustrated by Ron Hall

River of Salmon Peoples

by (author) Jeannette Armstrong & Gerry William

Breath Tracks

by (author) Jeannette Armstrong

Native Poetry in Canada

A Contemporary Anthology

edited by Jeannette Armstrong & Lally Grauer

Whispering in Shadows

by (author) Jeannette Armstrong

Gatherings, Volume VII - Standing Ground

Strength and Solidarity Amidst Dissolving Boundaries

by (author) Jeannette Armstrong

Slash

by (author) Jeannette Armstrong

The Native Creative Process

A Collaborative Discourse

by (author) Jeannette Armstrong

Enwhisteetkwa Walk in Water

illustrated by Jeannette Armstrong