More about some of the people from the 8th Fire TV series.
Lee Maracle is a celebrated author, poet, educator, storyteller and performing artist.
She is one of the country's most prolific First Nations' writers, and was first published in the early 1970s.
Among her novels are Ravensong, Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel and Daughters Are Forever.
She's a member of the Stó:lo Nation of British Columbia, and is a descendant of Mary Agnes Joe Capilano, known as the Princess of Peace of Capilano Reserve.
Maracle is also the granddaughter of the renowned Chief Dan George, and two of her four children are performers, Sid Bobb and daughter Columpa, a multi-disciplinary artist, who is also a playwright, songwriter and Artisitc Director of the largest Aboriginal Theatre school in Canada.
She is currently the Aboriginal Writer-in-Residence for First Nations House, and an Instructor in the Aboriginal Studies Dept. at University of Toronto.
She is one of the founders of the En'owkin International School of Writing in Penticton, BC, and Cultural Director of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto. She mentors young people on personal and cultural healing and reclamation. Her own difficult youth left indelible marks, she says. "I got beat up at school everyday because they didn't want Indians."
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