Drew Hayden Taylor (born 1 July 1962) is a Canadian playwright, author and journalist. "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends
Born in Curve Lake, Ontario, Taylor is part Ojibwa and part Caucasian. The Curve Lake First Nation is Mississauga Ojibway First Nation located in Peterborough County of Ontario. Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec The Ojibwa or Chippewa (also Ojibwe, Ojibway, Chippeway) is the largest group of Native Americans - First Nations White People is the second album by Handsome Boy Modeling School. About his background Taylor says: "I plan to start my own nation. Because I am half Ojibway half Caucasian, we will be called the occasions. And of course, since I’m founding the new nation, I will be a special occasion. " [1]
He writes predominantly about First Nations culture, and has also been a frequent contributor to various magazines including This Magazine. First Nations is a term of Ethnicity that refers to the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis people For the American poetry magazine see This (magazine. This Magazine is a left-wing independent Canadian political magazine His writing includes plays, short stories and essays. In 2004 he was appointed to the Ontario Ministry of Culture Advisory Committee.
As well as his writing, Taylor has been the artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts, and has taught at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre. Native Earth Performing Arts is a Canadian Theatre company located in Toronto. Founded in 1974 by the late James H Buller, the Native Theatre School was started with the vision that Aboriginal people could create change in Canada
Taylor is currently the Writer-In-Residence at the University of Western Ontario. The University of Western Ontario (known as Western, as well as UWO or Western Ontario) is a public research University located in London
Bibliography
- Toronto at Dreamer's Rock (1990)
- Education is Our Right (1990)
- Pictures on the Wall (1990)
- The Bootlegger Blues (1991)
- A Contemporary Gothic Indian Vampire Story (1992)
- Someday (1993)
- The All Complete Aboriginal Show Extravaganza (1994)
- Funny, You Don't Look Like One (1996, essays)
- Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth (1998)
- Fearless Warriors (1998, short fiction)
- The Baby Blues (1999)
- 400 Kilometres (1999)
- Further Adventures of a Blue-Eyed Ojibway: Funny, You Don't Look Like One Two (1999, essays)
- alterNatives (2000)
- The Boy in the Treehouse (2000)
- Girl Who Loved Her Horses (2000)
- Furious Observations of a Blue-Eyed Ojibway: Funny, You Don't Look Like One Three (2002, essays)
- The Buz'Gem Blues (2002)
- Futile Observations of a Blue-Eyed Ojibway: Funny, You Don't Look Like One Four (2004, essays)
- 400 Kilometres (2005)
- Me Funny (2006)
- In A World Created by a Drunken God (2006)
- The Night Wanderer (2007)
- The Berlin Blues (2007)
- Me Sexy (2008)
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