Ms. Que Banh<p>My personal <a href="https://beige.party/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ReadingGoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadingGoal</span></a> this year is to find &amp; read every book that Richard Wagamese wrote. I have read 3 of his books so far &amp; loved them. He's one of my fave <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> authors in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>.</p><p>Richard Wagamese was one of Canada’s foremost <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndigenousAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAuthors</span></a> &amp; esteemed public speaker &amp; <a href="https://beige.party/tags/storyteller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storyteller</span></a>. A professional writer since 1979, he was a newspaper columnist &amp; reporter, radio &amp; television broadcaster &amp; producer, documentary producer &amp; author of 14 titles from various <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canadian</span></a> publishers.</p><p>He was a success in every genre of writing he tried. An <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ojibway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ojibway</span></a> from the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Wabaseemoong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wabaseemoong</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> in Northwestern <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ontario</span></a>, he became the first <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeCanadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeCanadian</span></a> to win a National Newspaper Award for Column Writing in 1991. He won the Alberta Writers Guild Best Novel Award for his debut novel,&nbsp;Keeper’n Me&nbsp;in 1994 &amp; the Canadian&nbsp;Authors Association Award for Fiction for his third novel&nbsp;Dream Wheels, in 2007. One Native Life&nbsp;was one of&nbsp;The Globe &amp; Mail’s 100 Best Books of 2008 &amp;&nbsp;One Story, One Song&nbsp;was awarded the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature in 2011.</p><p>Indian Horse, the feature film, is based on his book of the same title.</p><p>If you haven't read any of his books yet, I highly recommend finding them at your local library 👍📚</p>