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'''Ma-Nee Chacaby''' (born July 22, 1950) is an [[Ojibwe people|Ojibwe]]-[[Cree people|Cree]] writer and activist from Canada.<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/andrew-pyper-kim-izzo-and-the-mystery-panel-1.4161894/what-being-two-spirit-means-to-indigenous-elder-ma-nee-chacaby-1.4162460 "What being two-spirit means to Indigenous elder Ma-Nee Chacaby"]. ''[[The Next Chapter (radio program)|The Next Chapter]]'' ([[CBC Radio One|CBC Radio]]), June 9, 2017.</ref> She is most noted for her memoir, ''A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder.''
'''Ma-Nee Chacaby''' (born July 22, 1950) is an [[Ojibwe people|Ojibwe]]-[[Cree people|Cree]] writer and activist from Canada.<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/andrew-pyper-kim-izzo-and-the-mystery-panel-1.4161894/what-being-two-spirit-means-to-indigenous-elder-ma-nee-chacaby-1.4162460 "What being two-spirit means to Indigenous elder Ma-Nee Chacaby"]. ''[[The Next Chapter (radio program)|The Next Chapter]]'' ([[CBC Radio One|CBC Radio]]), June 9, 2017.</ref> She is most noted for her memoir, ''A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder.''


== Early Years ==
== Early years ==
Born and raised in the remote [[Northern Ontario]] indigenous community of [[Unorganized Thunder Bay District|Ombabika]],<ref name="tbwatch" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Chacaby |first=Ma-Nee |title=A Two-Spirit Journey |publisher=University of Manitoba Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-0887558122 |pages=7}}</ref> Chacaby escaped the [[Indian residential school system]] only because she was away hunting and trapping with her stepfather when government agents arrived in the community during the [[Sixties Scoop]].<ref name="tbwatch" /> She later lived in [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]] and [[Thunder Bay]], Ontario, and sparked a local controversy when she openly identified herself as a [[lesbian]] in a television news story for [[Dougall Media|Thunder Bay Television]] in 1988.<ref name="tbwatch" /> She remained a local activist on LGBTQ and [[indigenous peoples of Canada|indigenous]] issues, and later began to create and exhibit work as a painter,<ref name="src">Anouk Lebel, [https://ici.radio-canada.ca/espaces-autochtones/1263310/homsexualite-bispiritualite-fierte-montreal "Ma-Nee Chacaby : le parcours hors du commun d'une militante autochtone bispirituelle"]. [[Ici Radio-Canada]], August 17, 2019.</ref> before writing and publishing ''A Two-Spirit Journey''.
Born and raised in the remote [[Northern Ontario]] indigenous community of [[Unorganized Thunder Bay District|Ombabika]],<ref name="tbwatch" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Chacaby |first=Ma-Nee |title=A Two-Spirit Journey |publisher=University of Manitoba Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-0887558122 |pages=7}}</ref> Chacaby escaped the [[Indian residential school system]] only because she was away hunting and trapping with her stepfather when government agents arrived in the community during the [[Sixties Scoop]].<ref name="tbwatch" /> She later lived in [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]] and [[Thunder Bay]], Ontario, and sparked a local controversy when she openly identified herself as a [[lesbian]] in a television news story for [[Dougall Media|Thunder Bay Television]] in 1988.<ref name="tbwatch" /> She remained a local activist on 2SLGBTQ+ and [[indigenous peoples of Canada|indigenous]] issues, and later began to create and exhibit work as a painter,<ref name="src">Anouk Lebel, [https://ici.radio-canada.ca/espaces-autochtones/1263310/homsexualite-bispiritualite-fierte-montreal "Ma-Nee Chacaby : le parcours hors du commun d'une militante autochtone bispirituelle"]. [[Ici Radio-Canada]], August 17, 2019.</ref> before writing and publishing ''A Two-Spirit Journey''. She is fluent in both Cree and Ojibwe.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pyle |first=Kai |date=2018 |title=Naming and Claiming: Recovering Ojibwe and Plains Cree Two-Spirit Language |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article/5/4/574/136483/Naming-and-ClaimingRecovering-Ojibwe-and-Plains |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=Duke University Press}}</ref>


== Publications ==
== Publications ==
''A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder'' was co-authored by Mary Louisa Plummer and published by the [[University of Manitoba Press]] in 2016.<ref name="tbwatch">Scott Paradis, [https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/book-chronicles-two-spirited-elders-struggle-and-redemption-405779 "Book chronicles two-spirited elder's struggle and redemption"]. ''[[Dougall Media|TB News Watch]]'', May 21, 2016.</ref> It is the 18th title in the Native History Series published by the press. Methodologically, it combines social science and indigenous oral history.<ref>Leung-Pittman, Emily. "A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer." The Goose, vol. 16 , no. 2 , article 26, 2018, <nowiki>https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol16/iss2/26</nowiki>.</ref> The authors conducted over one hundred hours of interviews as part of their writing process, and the book deals with themes of child abuse, alcohol abuse, sexuality, and post-traumatic stress disorder.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pyle |first=Kai |date=2017 |title=Review of A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/studamerindilite.29.2.0095 |journal=Studies in American Indian Literatures |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=95–98 |doi=10.5250/studamerindilite.29.2.0095 |issn=0730-3238}}</ref>
''A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder'' was co-authored by Mary Louisa Plummer and published by the [[University of Manitoba Press]] in 2016.<ref name="tbwatch">Scott Paradis, [https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/book-chronicles-two-spirited-elders-struggle-and-redemption-405779 "Book chronicles two-spirited elder's struggle and redemption"]. ''[[Dougall Media|TB News Watch]]'', May 21, 2016.</ref> It is the 18th title in the Native History Series published by the press. Methodologically, it combines social science and indigenous oral history.<ref>Leung-Pittman, Emily. "A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer." The Goose, vol. 16 , no. 2 , article 26, 2018, <nowiki>https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol16/iss2/26</nowiki>.</ref> The authors conducted over one hundred hours of interviews as part of their writing process, and the book deals with themes of child abuse, alcohol abuse, sexuality, and post-traumatic stress disorder.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pyle |first=Kai |date=2017 |title=Review of A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/studamerindilite.29.2.0095 |journal=Studies in American Indian Literatures |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=95–98 |doi=10.5250/studamerindilite.29.2.0095 |jstor=10.5250/studamerindilite.29.2.0095 |issn=0730-3238}}</ref>


== Critical Acclaim ==
== Critical acclaim ==
The biography was awarded the U.S. Oral History Association's 2017 Book Award,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oralhistory.org/2017-oha-awards/|title=2017 OHA Awards|last=|first=|date=|website=Oral History Association|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> as well as the Ontario Historical Society's 2018 Alison Prentice Award for Best Book on Women's History in Ontario.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2017-11-Alison-Prentice-Award-Ma-Nee-Chacaby.pdf|title=Two-Spirit Elder's Autobiography Recognized with Provincial Award|last=|first=|date=|website=Ontario Historical Society|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> In addition, ''A Two-Spirit Journey'' was a shortlisted [[Lambda Literary Award]] finalist for Lesbian Memoir/Biography at the [[29th Lambda Literary Awards]] in 2017,<ref>Becky Robertson, [https://quillandquire.com/awards/2017/03/14/m-e-girard-vivek-shraya-among-13-canadians-nominated-for-2017-lambda-literary-awards/ "M-E Girard, Vivek Shraya among 13 Canadians nominated for 2017 Lambda Literary Awards"]. ''[[Quill & Quire]]'', March 14, 2017.</ref> and was shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher at the 2017 Manitoba Book Awards.<ref>Sue Carter, [https://ici.radio-canada.ca/espaces-autochtones/1263310/homsexualite-bispiritualite-fierte-montreal "Katherena Vermette, David Bergen, Ma-Nee Chacaby nominated for Manitoba Book Awards"]. ''[[Quill & Quire]]'', March 24, 2017.</ref>
The biography was awarded the U.S. Oral History Association's 2017 Book Award,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oralhistory.org/2017-oha-awards/|title=2017 OHA Awards|last=|first=|date=18 September 2008|website=Oral History Association|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> as well as the Ontario Historical Society's 2018 Alison Prentice Award for Best Book on Women's History in Ontario.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2017-11-Alison-Prentice-Award-Ma-Nee-Chacaby.pdf|title=Two-Spirit Elder's Autobiography Recognized with Provincial Award|last=|first=|date=|website=Ontario Historical Society|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> In addition, ''A Two-Spirit Journey'' was a shortlisted [[Lambda Literary Award]] finalist for Lesbian Memoir/Biography at the [[29th Lambda Literary Awards]] in 2017,<ref>Becky Robertson, [https://quillandquire.com/awards/2017/03/14/m-e-girard-vivek-shraya-among-13-canadians-nominated-for-2017-lambda-literary-awards/ "M-E Girard, Vivek Shraya among 13 Canadians nominated for 2017 Lambda Literary Awards"]. ''[[Quill & Quire]]'', March 14, 2017.</ref> and was shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher at the 2017 Manitoba Book Awards.<ref>Sue Carter, [https://ici.radio-canada.ca/espaces-autochtones/1263310/homsexualite-bispiritualite-fierte-montreal "Katherena Vermette, David Bergen, Ma-Nee Chacaby nominated for Manitoba Book Awards"]. ''[[Quill & Quire]]'', March 24, 2017.</ref>


In 2019, ''A Two-Spirit Journey'' was published in French as ''Un Parcours Bispirituel'' by Les éditions du remue-ménage.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.editions-rm.ca/livres/un-parcours-bispirituel/|title=Un parcours bispirituel: Récit d'une aînée ojibwé-crie lesbienne|last=|first=|date=11 March 2019|website=Les éditions du remue-ménage.|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> That same year, Chacaby served as one of the grand marshals of the [[Fierté Montréal]] parade.<ref name="src" />
In 2019, ''A Two-Spirit Journey'' was published in French as ''Un Parcours Bispirituel'' by Les éditions du remue-ménage.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.editions-rm.ca/livres/un-parcours-bispirituel/|title=Un parcours bispirituel: Récit d'une aînée ojibwé-crie lesbienne|last=|first=|date=11 March 2019|website=Les éditions du remue-ménage.|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> That same year, Chacaby served as one of the grand marshals of the [[Fierté Montréal]] parade.<ref name="src" />
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Latest revision as of 03:16, 25 September 2024

Ma-Nee Chacaby
Born (1950-07-22) July 22, 1950 (age 74)
Ombabika
NationalityCanadian, Ojibwa-Cree
Occupation(s)Author, activist
Notable workA Two-Spirit Journey (2016)
Websitema-nee.art

Ma-Nee Chacaby (born July 22, 1950) is an Ojibwe-Cree writer and activist from Canada.[1] She is most noted for her memoir, A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder.

Early years

[edit]

Born and raised in the remote Northern Ontario indigenous community of Ombabika,[2][3] Chacaby escaped the Indian residential school system only because she was away hunting and trapping with her stepfather when government agents arrived in the community during the Sixties Scoop.[2] She later lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Thunder Bay, Ontario, and sparked a local controversy when she openly identified herself as a lesbian in a television news story for Thunder Bay Television in 1988.[2] She remained a local activist on 2SLGBTQ+ and indigenous issues, and later began to create and exhibit work as a painter,[4] before writing and publishing A Two-Spirit Journey. She is fluent in both Cree and Ojibwe.[5]

Publications

[edit]

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder was co-authored by Mary Louisa Plummer and published by the University of Manitoba Press in 2016.[2] It is the 18th title in the Native History Series published by the press. Methodologically, it combines social science and indigenous oral history.[6] The authors conducted over one hundred hours of interviews as part of their writing process, and the book deals with themes of child abuse, alcohol abuse, sexuality, and post-traumatic stress disorder.[7]

Critical acclaim

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The biography was awarded the U.S. Oral History Association's 2017 Book Award,[8] as well as the Ontario Historical Society's 2018 Alison Prentice Award for Best Book on Women's History in Ontario.[9] In addition, A Two-Spirit Journey was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award finalist for Lesbian Memoir/Biography at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017,[10] and was shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher at the 2017 Manitoba Book Awards.[11]

In 2019, A Two-Spirit Journey was published in French as Un Parcours Bispirituel by Les éditions du remue-ménage.[12] That same year, Chacaby served as one of the grand marshals of the Fierté Montréal parade.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "What being two-spirit means to Indigenous elder Ma-Nee Chacaby". The Next Chapter (CBC Radio), June 9, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d Scott Paradis, "Book chronicles two-spirited elder's struggle and redemption". TB News Watch, May 21, 2016.
  3. ^ Chacaby, Ma-Nee (2016). A Two-Spirit Journey. University of Manitoba Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0887558122.
  4. ^ a b Anouk Lebel, "Ma-Nee Chacaby : le parcours hors du commun d'une militante autochtone bispirituelle". Ici Radio-Canada, August 17, 2019.
  5. ^ Pyle, Kai (2018). "Naming and Claiming: Recovering Ojibwe and Plains Cree Two-Spirit Language". Duke University Press. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
  6. ^ Leung-Pittman, Emily. "A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer." The Goose, vol. 16 , no. 2 , article 26, 2018, https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol16/iss2/26.
  7. ^ Pyle, Kai (2017). "Review of A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder". Studies in American Indian Literatures. 29 (2): 95–98. doi:10.5250/studamerindilite.29.2.0095. ISSN 0730-3238. JSTOR 10.5250/studamerindilite.29.2.0095.
  8. ^ "2017 OHA Awards". Oral History Association. 18 September 2008.
  9. ^ "Two-Spirit Elder's Autobiography Recognized with Provincial Award" (PDF). Ontario Historical Society.
  10. ^ Becky Robertson, "M-E Girard, Vivek Shraya among 13 Canadians nominated for 2017 Lambda Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, March 14, 2017.
  11. ^ Sue Carter, "Katherena Vermette, David Bergen, Ma-Nee Chacaby nominated for Manitoba Book Awards". Quill & Quire, March 24, 2017.
  12. ^ "Un parcours bispirituel: Récit d'une aînée ojibwé-crie lesbienne". Les éditions du remue-ménage. 11 March 2019.
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