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	Quill & Quire
		Highway's debut novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen - released in September by Doubleday Canada in a swell of industry buzz - is the semi-autobiographical tale of the relationship between the brothers Jeremiah and Gabriel Okimasis, the abuse they suffer at residential school, and how that pain affects their adult lives.
		Tomson and his brother Rene were removed from their family and sent to a church-run residential school in the 1950s.
		Tomson eventually went on to university in London, Ontario, where he studied classical piano and English literature and embarked on a promising career as a concert pianist.
	www.quillandquire.com /authors/profile.cfm?article_id=1216 (1401 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Kiss of the Fur Queen: Books: Tomson Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Highway's slow evolution of the narrative is masterful, travelling from the nostalgic remembrances of a child's idyllic life to the brutalities that face Native-Canadians in the 'evolved' city of Winnipeg.
		Highway sometimes loses control of the story, and his experienced hand at dialogue is sometimes thwarted by the more descriptive nature of a novel.
		Tomson Highway has the ability to translate into words, the feeling of living in the north, even though only a portion of the novel is set there.
	www.amazon.ca /Kiss-Fur-Queen-Tomson-Highway/dp/0517707926 (1665 words)

	Tomson Highway on campus to talk about racism, mythologies (March 17)
		Internationally renowned Canadian playwright Tomson Highway will be on campus March 26-27 to present the Fine Arts Riddell Lecture and to speak to the University community as part of events honouring the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
		Highway, a Cree raised on a reserve in Brochet, Manitoba, is best known for his plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.
		Highway was educated at the Guy Indian Residential School and Churchill High School in Manitoba, and has an honours degree in music and a BA in English from the University of Western Ontario.
	www.uregina.ca /commun/report/2000/mar1700/tomson.html (284 words)

	Playwright Tomson Highway to visit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Highway was born on a remote island on Maria Lake and for the first six years of his life, he lived in northwestern Manitoba speaking only Cree.
		At the age of 6, Tomson began to speak English (becoming fluent in his late teens) and was sent to a Roman Catholic boarding school, where he stayed until he turned 15.
		Highway's visit is supported by the Dr. Burton Spiller '53 New Play and Playwright Fund and the Cornell Council for the Arts.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/01/10.11.01/Highway.html (337 words)

	National Theatre School
		Highway was first introduced by his friend and colleague Alanis King, a playwright and actor who was also the first aboriginal woman to graduate from the NTS back in 1992.
		Tomson Highway was born on his father’s trapline in Northern Manitoba on December 6, 1951.
		Highway also was appointed Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts (NEPA) from 1986 to 1992, and in 1994 he became the first aboriginal writer to be inducted into the Order of Canada.
	www.ent-nts.qc.ca /journal/j24p04_tomson.htm (1085 words)

	Scarborough Philharmonic: Ancestral Voices: Tomson Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Tomson Highway is a Cree from Brochet, a reserve in the extreme northwest corner of Manitoba.
		Highway was Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto, where he produced and directed new plays by emerging Native playwrights.
		Tomson Highway holds three honorary degrees and is a member of the Order of Canada.
	pages.total.net /~spo/education/av/pieces/highway.html (380 words)

	BU News - Internationally acclaimed writer Tomson Highway to spend two terms at BU as Stanley Knowles Distinguished ...
		Highway will be on campus for two terms, the first during the fall of 2006, and the second during the fall of 2007.
		Highway himself speaks fluent Cree, English and French, is a recipient of the Order of Canada, and was one of the founders of Native Earth Performing Arts, Toronto’s first professional Aboriginal theatre company, and a large contributor to what is currently the world’s most active and culturally richest Aboriginal theatre industries.
		A full-blooded Cree, Tomson Highway is the proud son of legendary caribou hunter and world championship dogsled racer Joe Highway and artist-in-her-own-right (as quilt-maker and bead-worker) Pelagie Highway.
	www.brandonu.ca /news/article.asp?A_ID=1045 (852 words)

	Tomson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Tomson Highway was born in Manitoba, Canada on Dec. 6, 1951.
		Tomson did not learn English until he was a teenager, and therefor, Cree is his native language.
		Tomson has been the artistic director for the Native Earth Preforming Arts for the last 5 years.
	www.geocities.com /afmed17/Tomson.html (401 words)

	Hour.ca - Books - Tomson Highway honoured at Voix d'Amériques
		He has revealed many facts about Tomson of which I was not aware although many of Tomson's readers could have learned much from the notes that accompany his two plays, "The Rez Sisters" and "Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing" as well as his first novel, "Kiss of the Fur Queen".
		Tragically, as Tomson Highway's childhood began, plucked at a young age and placed in a residential school is all too common on reserves.
		For Tomson Highway, solitude and introspective thinking have also enabled him to find peace in his soul and attracted an increasing number of followers to his work along the way.
	www.hour.ca /books/books.aspx?iIDArticle=8276 (1878 words)

	Tomson Highway
		Tomson Highway is Native theatre in this country.
		Highway has been writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, Concordia University and others.
		The proud son of a caribou hunter - who was born off a trapline in isolated northern Manitoba - Highway is trilingual, speaking French, English and Cree.
	www.naaf.ca /html/t_highway_e.html (246 words)

	CBC: Life And Times
		Tomson Highway first leapt to public attention with The Rez Sisters, a play about seven women on an imaginary reserve that portrayed native life as never seen before in all its humour, bawdiness and sorrow.
		Tomson Highway travels to his childhood home in Leaf Rapids, Manitoba, a thousand miles north of Winnipeg, where he meets his mother and sisters.
		There is a frank discussion of Highway’s experiences in native residential schools and of the violence against women he has witnessed throughout his life.
	www.cbc.ca /lifeandtimes/highway.html (251 words)

	Western Canada Theatre: Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout Study Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Tomson Highway and I had met at the Banff Playwright’s Colony some years before when his play ROSE was being workshopped, and over more coffee we all agreed to approach Tomson.
		As a starting point, Tomson was provided with a historical document referred to as the Laurier Memorial, a document that was dictated by the Chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan, and Thompson Nations to a Scottish secretary, James A. Teit.
		Tomson plays with time and with the scope of the tasks in such a way that 100 years (from first contact with the First Nations people to the time of Sir Wilfrid’s arrival) are condensed into the time frame of a day.
	www.westerncanadatheatre.bc.ca /ErnestineStudyGuide.htm (4131 words)

	Tomson Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Playwright Tomson Highway, well-known for his award-winning The Rez Sisters (1988) and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing (1989), published his first novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen in 1998.
		The cover of the first edition shows his brother, professional dancer, the late Rene Highway, in mid-flight, superimposed on a landscape of tundra, with miniature figures driving dogsleds on the back.
		While this work is classified as a novel, there is a striking similarity between the lives of the Highways and the story of the Okimasis brothers in the book.
	research2.csci.educ.ubc.ca /indigenation/Indian_ReACTions/Indian_ReACTions/TomsonHighway.htm (526 words)

	Tomson Highway Named Candian Culture Visitor
		Renowned playwright Tomson Highway has been chosen as the 1997-98 Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Culture at University College, University of Toronto.
		Highway, born in Manitoba, is the author of eight plays, the most well known of which are The Sage, The Dancer and the Fool, The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.
		Highway, whose term begins in September, will be available to meet with students, researchers and various classes.
	www.news.utoronto.ca /bin/19970919.asp (179 words)

	official sherman alexie \| interviews \| aboriginal voices
		Highway: You were raised a Catholic, and then you went to a Jesuit Catholic school, which is a Roman Catholic School.
		Highway: The poetry that you would have studied in American Studies, for instance, the poetry of Wallace Stevens or e.e.
		Highway: Not a relationship of equals, a relationship of subservience.
	www.fallsapart.com /art-av.html (2073 words)

	Native American Authors: Tomson Highway
		Tomson Highway was born in 1951, in northwest Manitoba, Canada.
		Highway is known for his plays which depict life on the reservation.
		Description: Bio of Highway provided in conjunction with a Scarborough Philharmonic performance of composer Barbara Croall's "Caribou Song", which was based on the story by Highway.
	www.ipl.org /div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A39 (235 words)

	BU News - The Brandon University Faculty of Arts and Balazee Productions present Tomson Highway: A Reading of His Work ...
		Highway who plays grand piano for the cabaret, will be joined on stage for both shows by singer/actress extraordinaire Patricia Cano (vocals), and Brandon University's Greg Gatien (saxophone).
		Tomson Highway, the proud son of legendary caribou hunter and world championship dogsled racer Joe Highway, was born in a tent pitched in a snow bank in the extreme northwest corner of Manitoba.
		Highway is the Stanley Knowles Distinguished Visiting Professor for 2006 and 2007 in the Brandon University Faculty of Arts.
	www.brandonu.ca /news/article.asp?A_ID=1120 (392 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway
		Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway
		Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school.
		Tomson Highway is a Cree from Brochet, in northern Manitoba.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385258807 (224 words)

	Playwrights' Workshop Montréal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Tomson Highway was born on his father's trap-line in northern Manitoba on December 6, 1951, 100 miles north of the reserve that he belongs to called Brochet Manitoba.
		His father, Joe Highway, was a trapper and fisherman, and a legendary dog-sled racer.
		Tomson is the eleventh of twelve children, five boys and seven girls.
	www.playwrights.ca /portfolios/tomsonbio.html (571 words)

	FFWD Weekly: October 8th, 1998
		It speaks of the body in a very relaxed way, full of humor." In his famously gentle and musical voice, playwright and novelist Tomson Highway explains that for him, English is very much a language of the intellect.
		Writing his new novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen, reminded Highway that just as in his award-winning plays, the transition from Cree into English remains the most challenging part of his craft.
		Highway himself sees this as the greatest threat to surival: "If we don't heal the split we will be destroyed." Using his work to help heal this inter-generational wound provides a mission for Highway's writing, one that goes beyond providing entertainment or insight.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/1998/1008/word2.html (668 words)

	Aboriginal People Profiles (Writers) - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		As Canada's best-known Aboriginal playwright, Tomson Highway built his reputation on his plays about life on reserves.
		Highway was born in 1951 in northwest Manitoba.
		Highway's awards include the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1986), the Dora Mavor Moore Award (1987-88) and the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.
	www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /ks/3309_e.html (178 words)

	North American Studies Program - Canada Seminar 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Tomson Highway’s talk, illustrated by excerpts on the grand piano from his plays/musicals, was the highlight of the 2-day Canada Seminar 2002.
		The Seminar was arranged by the Finnish Chapter of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies in cooperation with the English Department of the University of Helsinki and the Canadian Embassy in Helsinki.
		Mr Highway’s performance was preceded by a paper on the identity and values of First Nations writers by Professor Hartmut Lutz (University of Greifswald), the leading European scholar in Native North American literary studies.
	www.helsinki.fi /hum/renvall/pamold/canada2002/index.html (281 words)

	NOW: Skin Games, Sep 26 - Oct 2, 2002
		Tomson gave more than his blessing, he congratulated the professor for daring to go against common practice.
		Several months before, Highway had written an article for a journal railing against artistic directors reluctant to produce The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing because they might not be able to find enough native actors to fill all the roles.
		Highway believes non-traditional casting should work both ways and white folk should have the option of playing natives.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2002-09-26/news_story4.php (741 words)

	13. Tomson Highway in Conversation with Hal Wake - Vancouver International Writers Festival
		Tomson Highway in Conversation with Hal Wake - Vancouver International Writers Festival
		Tomson Highway was born in a tent in the middle of a snowbank, on his father's trapline in northern Manitoba.
		Former CBC broadcaster Hal Wake takes a rare opportunity to talk with Tomson Highway about his journey from that Manitoba trapline to earning an honorary doctorate from Brandon University and the Order of Canada.
	www.writersfest.bc.ca /2003festival/events.php?event=13 (93 words)

	NAAA - Tomson Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		omson Highway is Native theatre in this country.
		His plays - Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, The Rez Sisters, The Sage, The Dancer and the Fool - established a place and market for Aboriginal theatre in Canada.
		In 1998, his first novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen, was published and was soon nominated for several prestigious literary awards.
	www.firstnationsdrum.com /Sum2001/NAAA-Highway.htm (316 words)

	The Rez Sisters Summary & Essays - Tomson Highway
		When The Rez Sisters was first performed in 1986, Canadian and American audiences took note of this new and offbeat play by Native North American playwright Tomson Highway.
		The play spans a summer in 1986, when seven women (all related by birth or marriage) decide to travel to Toronto to participate in "THE BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD." Each woman offers the audience a different attitude toward life on the reservation—as well as their individual dreams of escaping it.
		On a larger scale, Highway was hailed for creating a work that made Native North American life accessible as well as entertaining to a wide audience.
	www.enotes.com /rez-sisters (311 words)

	The Rez Sisters Study Guide by Tomson Highway: Further Reading
		Although he mainly focuses on Highway's Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Bemrose does offer some valuable quotations from Highway on the differences between the Cree language and English.
		C5 Conlogue explains how The Rez Sisters reflects Highway's concerns as a Native and as an artist, touching upon such topics as the Trickster, racism and the "matrilineal principle" in Native literature.
		This is a long and thorough interview in which Enright and Highway discuss the playwright's childhood, study of folklore, and the effects of Christianity on Native spmtual life.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-rezsisters/further.html (196 words)

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