Brian Maracle

'''Brian Maracle''' (also known as '''Owennatekha''';<ref name=canenc>Laura Neilson Bonikowsky, [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/brian-maracle "Brian Maracle"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328201307/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/brian-maracle |date=2020-03-28 }}. ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', April 23, 2013.</ref> born 1947) is a Mohawk writer and broadcaster from Canada.<ref name=canenc/> He is most noted as a two-time nominee for the Writers' Trust of Canada's Gordon Montador Award, for his books ''Crazywater: Native Voices on Addiction and Recovery'' in 1994<ref name=booksnominated>"Books nominated". ''Toronto Star'', May 3, 1994.</ref> and ''Back on the Rez'' in 1997.<ref name=globe>"Globe writer on shortlist for Montador award". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 17, 1997.</ref>

A member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, Maracle was raised Ohsweken, Ontario and in New York before being educated at Dartmouth College.<ref name=canenc/> He then worked for indigenous organizations in Canada before returning to school, studying journalism at Carleton University, and then worked as a journalist on indigenous issues for ''The Globe and Mail'' and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, most notably hosting the radio series ''Our Native Land''.<ref name=canenc/> He published ''Crazywater: Native Voices on Addiction and Recovery'', an extensive study of addiction issues in First Nations communities, in 1993, and ''Back to the Rez'', a memoir of his own experiences moving back to Ohsweken after having spent many years living and working in the wider world, in 1996.<ref name=canenc/>

After moving back to Ohsweken, he established a Mohawk language immersion school in the community, and hosted the radio program ''Tewatonhwehsen!'' on community radio station CKRZ-FM.<ref name=canenc/> He has also collaborated with his daughter, filmmaker Zoe Leigh Hopkins, on the 2012 sound art piece ''Karenniyohston – Old Songs Made Good''.<ref name=canenc/>

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