Talk:Rita Bouvier

Honouring Indigenous Writers Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

This author appears on the Honouring Indigenous Writers author list. This Wikipedia event seeks to improve the coverage and raise the profile of Indigenous writers on Wikipedia. Our planning group has had a number of discussions to figure out a way to ensure this project is working in good faith with Indigenous writers. At the core of our discussions was the desire to ensure the project respected cultural integrity and to ensure Indigenous perspectives and experiences guided the decision-making processes. As a part of our event, we asked authors what kind of information they would like to see represented in their article. This is what Rita sent (trimmed to what might be relevant to a WP article):

Publications

• Co-author, chapter in keetsahnak (University of Alberta Press, 2018), “iskwewuk e-wichiwitochik - Saskatchewan community Activism to Adress Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls”.
• Co-author, chapter in Indigenous Perspectives on Education for Well-Being in Canada. (2016)“Centering Indigenous Intellectual Traditions on Holistic Lifelong Learning”. ESWB Press, University of Manitoba. https://www.eswb-press.org/uploads/1/2/8/9/12899389/indigeneous_perspectives_2016.pdf
• nakomowin’sa for the seasons. (Poetry) Saskatoon, SK: Thistledown Press, April 2015. Winner 2016 Sask Book Awards winner of the Rasmussen, Rasmussen & Charowsky Aboriginal Peoples’ Writing Award.
• “Foreword” to Marie Battiste’s Decolonizing Education, Nourishing the Learning Spirit. (2013). Purich Publishing Limited. Canada: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
• “Introduction” to Assessing Students Ways of Knowing. (2009). Rick Sawa, Editor. Ottawa, ON: CCPA.
• Better that Way. (Children’s Book, 2008). Saskatoon, SK: Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research. Nominated for the Saskatchewan Arts Board Saskatoon Award.
• Co- author, “Accountability and Aboriginal Education: Dilemmas, Promises and Challenges” in Education’s Iron Cage – And Its Dismantling in the New Global Order. (2006) Ottawa, ON: CCPA.
• Co-editor, Resting Lightly on Mother Earth. (2001). Calgary, Alberta: Temeron Press. (Includes essay, Good Schools are Sites of Educational Activism).
• papîyâhtak. (Poetry, 2004). Saskatoon, SK: Thistledown Press. Nominated for Saskatchewan Book of the Year.
• Blueberry Clouds. (Poetry, 1999). Saskatoon, SK: Thistledown Press, 1999. Nominated for First Peoples Publishing Award.
• Poetry appears in various in literary anthologies and television productions (listed separately in this resume)
• Co-author of various research, task force and commissioned reports throughout career. Recent examples: Voice, Vision and Leadership: A Place for All – Joint Task Force on Imporving Education and Employment Outcomes for First Nations and Metis (2013); Independent Oversight Committee - Metis Elections of Sask (2007)
• Papers presented at various conferences (many unpublished – list available on request).

Work appearing in Anthologies

• “a beautiful rebellion” and “deeper than bone” in Grain Magazine, Summer 2019, Special Issue Indigenous Writers and Storytellers
• “a new day is here” and “he hasn’t entirely lost his touch” in Ndncountry, Vermette, K. & Cariou, W., Eds. (2019). Prairie Fire & Contemporary Verse Collaboration
• “it grows on trees” and curator of Saskatchewan’s contribution from the League of Canadian Poets in Heartwood, Strutt, L., Ed., League of Canadian Poets (2018)
• “Running dream”, “bannock and oranges”, “Riel is dead, and I am alive”, “songs to sing”, “little lemon yellow sailboat” in Kisiskâciwan Indigenous Voices From Where The River Flows Swiftly, Archibald-Barber, J. Ed. (2018). University of Regina Press
• Selections in nakamowin’sa for the seasons were created for Otipimsuak Atlas: Métis People and Lands of Northwest Saskatchewan (Keith Carlson, Editor, University of Saskatchewan, work in progress).
• Selected poems in An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, (fourth edition). Canada: Oxford University Press, 2013. Edited by Daniel David Moses, Terry Goldie and Armand Garnet Ruffo.
• Selected Poems in Zócalo Poets – Meet You in the Public Square (online), 2014– Spanish translation
• Contributions to We are here today/Wir sind heute hier. VdL-Verlag Publishing, Germany, 2009. Edited by Hartmut Lutz and the members of Greifswald University’s TAL (Translating Aboriginal Literatures) - group of students. Title of book is title of one of my poems included in this collection.
• Adaptation of my poetry from papiyahtak (2009) in The Batoche Musical produced for Back to Batoche Celebrations (2003-2006) and in Wa Wa Tey Wak - Northern Lights/Aurores Boréales - A contemporary Cree legend by Andrew Balfour ((2007).
• “Point la Roche” in Middle of Somewhere. Juxtaposition Productions, 2006. Produced by Sean Virgo.
• “Magic Potion” in That Incredible State. Novina Motion Pictures Inc.
• “Gabriel Dumont Overture” and “A Ritual for Goodbye”, Spring Vol 3, 2003.
• “Annie’s Caw Caw” and “Why Geese” in First Voices, First Words. Prairie Fire Press, 2002. Edited by Thomas King
• “The Portrait” in The Women of Glenairly. Rap Publications, 2002
• “The Medicine Man” in Sundog Highway. Coteau Books, 2002. Edited by Larry Warwaruk

Awards

• Winner of REVEAL 150 - Indigenous Art Awards for Writing, The Hnatyshyn Foundation, 2017.
• Indspire Award, 2014. National recognition for contributions in the field of education.
• Governor General Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2012. Recognition of contributions to Canada through work in Aboriginal education.
• Saskatchewan Aboriginal Literacy Award, 2010. Practitioner Category.
• Arbos Award, Commitment to the Teaching Profession, Saskatchewan Teachers‘ Federation, 2007.
• Awarded an Eagle Feather by peers, AWASIS, 2006. Contributions to Aboriginal Education and recognition as founding member of AWASIS, a special subject council of the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation on Indian and Métis Education.
• Saskatchewan Centennial Medal, 2005. Enriching community through creative writing.
• Chase Memorial Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan, 1972. Scholarship to Métis Students.

Aquilessa (talk) 16:27, 22 February 2021 (UTC)