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Drew Hayden Taylor

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Drew Hayden Taylor is an Anishnawbe playwright and humorist.

Honours & Awards

2012, Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Award

2011, CBC Bookie for Best Character for Motorcycles and Sweetgrass

2010, Ontario Premier’s Award for Creative Arts and Design

2010, Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award in Fiction, Motorcycles and Sweetgrass

2009, Victoria Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement in Theatre

2009, Nominations for Gemini Awards in several categories for In A World Created By A Drunken God

2008, Winner and Nominee at the American Indian Film Festival – Best Actor (winner), Best Film (nominated) and Best Director (nominated) for movie In A World Created By A Drunken God

Books

Chasing Painted Horses (2019)

Take Us To Your Chief: and Other Stories (short stories) (2016)

The Best of Funny, You Don’t Look Like One (anthology) (2015)

Me Artsy (2015)

The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel (2013)

NEWS: Postcards from the Four Directions (2010)

Motorcycles and Sweetgrass (2010)

The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel (2007)

Me Funny (2006)

Latest articles

I may have to stop writing plays with Native characters

Drew Hayden Taylor

To understand Pretendianism, we must first understand Indianism

Drew Hayden Taylor

There’s nothing simple about questioning Buffy Sainte-Marie, an icon of mythic proportions

Drew Hayden Taylor

October 27, 2023

Alicia Elliott’s debut novel brings unique edge to contemporary Indigenous literature

October 18, 2023

With its chills and thrills, Bad Cree goes beyond the genre’s trope

January 20, 2023

It’s a great season for Indigenous Theatre

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Should only Indigenous directors helm Indigenous plays?

Drew Hayden Taylor

January 25, 2022

I think Indigenous, therefore I am Indigenous

Drew Hayden Taylor

January 6, 2022

Inspiring and uncompromising, Lee Maracle could raise you up or eviscerate you

November 17, 2021

The Carrie Bourassa story is yet another example of a kind of cultural Munchausen syndrome

Drew Hayden Taylor

November 9, 2021

Even Indigenous theatre has fallen victim to wokeness

Drew Hayden Taylor

September 8, 2021

Watching a wrestling match between a man and a woman is an uncomfortable spectacle in this #MeToo and MMIWG era

Drew Hayden Taylor

August 10, 2021

For some, the definition of ‘settler’ is as difficult to pin down as reconciliation

Drew Hayden Taylor

Amanda Boyden’s new book, I Got The Dog, is commendable for offering little in the way of schadenfreude

Drew Hayden Taylor

Who is Indigenous enough?

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For Indigenous writers, the trauma of residential schools looms large

Drew Hayden Taylor

For many Indigenous people, memories of Oka are driving solidarity with Palestinians

Drew Hayden Taylor

When it comes to donning Indigenous fashion, aim for inspiration – not appropriation

Drew Hayden Taylor

Seven questions you shouldn’t ask an Indigenous person

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Memo to the BBC’s diversity head: Identity is more than what you eat and who you socialize with

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