Know your Indigenous Canadian authors

June 21st is National Aboriginal Day. But did you know that the entire month of June is Aboriginal History Month in Canada? Try our quiz on Indigenous Canadian authors, and increase your knowledge of Canadian literature!

1. This Cherokee author won the 2014 Governor General’s Award for the novel The Back of the Turtle.a) Cherie Dimalineb) Thomas Kingc) Bernard Assiniwi
2. This Innu poet won the 2013 poetry award from the Société des écrivains francophones d’Amérique for the poetry collection N’entre pas dans mon âme avec tes chaussures.a) Natasha Kanapé Fontaineb) Yves Sioui Durandc) Joséphine Bacon
3. Monkey Beach, this Haisla author’s debut novel, won the 2001 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia.a) Monique Gray Smithb) Tomson Highwayc) Eden Robinson
4. This Algonquian-Cree author won the 1997 Prix France-Québec for La saga des Béothuks.a) Bernard Assiniwib) Michel Noëlc) Thomas King
5. This Métis author won the 2017 Governor General's Award for young people's literature for the young adult novel The Marrow Thieves.a) Thomas Kingb) Eden Robinsonc) Cherie Dimaline
6. This acclaimed Innu poet was a finalist for the 2014 Governor General’s Award for French poetry for her bilingual Innu-French collection Un thé dans la toundra.a) Natasha Kanapé Fontaineb) Joséphine Baconc) Monique Gray Smith
7. This Cree playwright is best known for the multi-award-winning plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.a) Michel Noëlb) Cherie Dimalinec) Tomson Highway
8. This Métis author won the 1997 Governor General’s Award for French children’s literature for the autobiographical novel Pien.a) Michel Noëlb) Yves Sioui Durandc) Bernard Assiniwi
9. This author won the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature for the book Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience.a) Eden Robinsonb) Monique Gray Smithc) Joséphine Bacon
10. This Huron-Wendat dramatist won the Prix Américanit at Montréal’s 1985 Festival of the Americas for the play Le porteur des peines du monde.a) Tomson Highwayb) Yves Sioui Durandc) Natasha Kanapé Fontaine