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Jan 28, 1973 · Maria Campbell. Maria Campbell (born 6 of 26 Apr 1940 near Athlone, Edmonton) is a Métis author, playwright, broadcaster, filmmaker, and Elder. Campbell is a fluent speaker of four languages: Cree, Michif, Saulteaux, and English. Park Valley is located 80 miles northwest of Prince Albert. Her first book was the memoir Halfbreed (1973), which ...
Jun 21, 2023 · Halfbreed was an instant bestseller and turned Campbell, now eighty-four, into a literary celebrity. Fifty years later, the memoir remains as captivating and unforgettable as it was on publication. It helped that Campbell, then thirty-three, was stylish and striking; one profile, in the Province, described her as “an intense, intelligent ...
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Maria Campbell was born on a trapline in northwestern Saskatchewan. (See also Fur Trapping.) She grew up in a road-allowance community; road allowances refer to the nine-metre strips of government-owned land on either side of a road. Campbell was raised speaking the Cree, Michif, and Saulteaux (Ojibwe) languages. (See also Indigenous Languages in C...
Having worked in cities as a community organizer, Campbell co-wrote Many Laws (1969), a handbook that illuminated many of the challenges that Indigenous peopleface when they move to urban spaces. Campbell’s first full-length book was Halfbreed (1973). It chronicles the first 33 years of her life, covering her experiences of poverty, alcoholism, dru...
Campbell had a radio career as a writer and interviewer in the 1970s. In 1989, she co-wrote The Book of Jessica: A Theatrical Transformation with Linda Griffiths, loosely based on Halfbreed. The play debuted in 1986 at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille and won the Chalmers Award for Best New Canadian Play as well as the Dora Mavor Moore Award. Campb...
In addition to her work in the arts, Campbell is a volunteer, activist and advocate for Indigenous rights and the rights of women. In 1963, she founded the first Women’s Halfway House and the first Women and Children’s Emergency Crisis Centre in Edmonton. Campbell is also the national grandmother for Walking With Our Sisters, an art installation ab...
Campbell was an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan and a Special Scholar under the Dean of Arts and Science. She was also a Seasonal Instructor at the Saskatchewan Federated Indian College (now First Nations University). At Brandon University, Campbell served as a Stanley Knowles Distinguished Visiting Professor (2000–01). She wa...
Order of the Sash, Métis Nation of Saskatchewan (1985)National Hero award, Native Council of Canada (1979)Vanier Award, Vanier Institute(1979)Honorary Chief by the Black Lake First Nations (1978)Halfbreed can be and, for example in the works of younger Métis writers, has been seen as a story of self-discovery, an act of ethnic self-definition, or a therapeutic process that transforms shame and anger into a dialogue that engages both the writer and the reader in a healing act of remembering. Indeed, the practice of remembering and rewriting can, as Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez puts it ...
Halfbreed. A new, fully restored edition of the essential Canadian classic. An unflinchingly honest memoir of her experience as a Métis woman in Canada, Maria Campbell's Halfbreed depicts the realities that she endured and, above all, overcame. Maria was born in Northern Saskatchewan, her father the grandson of a Scottish businessman and ...
This is a fully restored edition of a memoir written by Maria Campbell of her experiences growing up as a Métis woman in Saskatchewan, originally published in 1973 and considered a ground-breaking book. Readers gain an understanding of the poverty, oppression, addiction, hatred, discrimination, and search for identity faced by many Métis ...
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Nov 5, 2019 · An unflinchingly honest memoir of her experience as a Métis woman in Canada, Maria Campbell's Halfbreed depicts the realities that she endured and, above all, overcame. Maria was born in Northern Saskatchewan, her father the grandson of a Scottish businessman and Métis woman--a niece of Gabriel Dumont whose family fought alongside Riel and Dumont in the 1885 Rebellion; her mother the ...
