Waubgeshig Rice

Waubgeshig Rice

Waubgeshig Isaac Rice (* 1979 in Toronto , Canada ) is a Canadian journalist and writer . He belongs to the indigenous Anishinabe people who live in the subarctic .

Life and education

Rice grew up in the Canadian province of Ontario on the Wasauksing First Nation reservation in the Parry Sound District as the son of an Anishinabe father and a Canadian mother with no indigenous roots. As a student at Parry Sound High School, he spent a school year in the Wesermarsch district of Lower Saxony in 1996/97 as part of the international exchange program of Rotary International , where he attended the Brake High School . In 2002 he completed a Bachelor -Studies of Journalism at Ryerson University from Toronto.

With his wife Sarah Rice and his sons Jiikwis Dean Manoominii (* 2016) and Ayaabehns Isaac Manoominii (* 2020) he lives alternately in Greater Sudbury and on the Wasauksing reservation.

journalist

During his time in Germany, Rice wrote a column for the Canadian newspaper Anishinabek News , in which he regularly reported on his experiences in Germany. That inspired him to embark on a journalistic career. He worked for CHRZ-FM, the Wasauksing Reservation's local radio station, and the Canadian commercial television station The Weather Network . In 2006 he went to the public broadcaster CBC , for whose TV and radio formats he worked in various regional studios and, from 2010 on, also at the headquarters in the federal capital Ottawa . In addition to short news reports, he also produced longer documentaries for CBC. In 2018 he took over the moderation of the afternoon radio show Up North for the local CBC Radio One stations in Greater Sudbury and Thunder Bay . In May 2020, he left the CBC to focus on his work as a writer.

writer

In 2011, Rice published the collection of short stories Midnight Sweatlodge at Theytus Books, based in Penticton , British Columbia , which specializes in the works of indigenous authors . In 2014, also with Theytus, followed his first novel Legacy .

The dystopian novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , published by ECW Press in Toronto in 2018 , became a bestseller. In April 2020, it was announced that Random House Canada had commissioned a sequel to the novel from Rice, which is expected to be released in the fall of 2022 and will be titled Moon of the Turning Leaves . In addition, the TV producer Robin Cass announced a film adaptation.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Waubgeshig Rice, Suzanne Methot: Drum making. A guide for the Anishinaabe hand drum . Ningwakwe Learning Press, Owen Sound 2005, ISBN 978-1-89683-254-8 .
• Laughter is good medicine. Don Burnstick . Ningwakwe Learning Press, Owen Sound 2009, ISBN 978-1-89754-107-4 .
• Midnight Sweatlodge . Theytus Books, Penticton 2011. ISBN 978-1-92688-614-5 .
• Legacy . Theytus Books, Penticton 2014. ISBN 978-1-92688-634-3 .
• Moon of the Crusted Snow. A novel . ECW Press, Toronto 2018, ISBN 978-1-77041-400-6 .

Fonts

• Dust . In: Kiera L. Ladner, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: This is an Honor Song. Twenty Years Since the Blockades . ARP Books, Winnipeg 2010, ISBN 978-1-89403-741-9 .
• Indigenous Journalists Need Apply . In: Kino-nda-niimi Collective: The Winter We Danced. Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement . ARP Books, Winnipeg 2014, ISBN 978-1-89403-751-8 .

Awards (selection)

• 2012: Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Book Awards for Midnight Sweatlodge ( Multicultural Fiction Adult category ).
• 2014: Anishinabek Nation's Debwewin Citation for excellence in First Nation Storytelling .
• 2019: Evergreen Award under the Forest of Reading program of the Ontario Library Association for Moon of the Crusted Snow .

Web links

• Literature by and about Waubgeshig Rice in the catalog of the German National Library
• Waubgeshig Rice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Web site Waubgeshig Rice (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Waubgeshig Rice: 20 Years After / 20 Years Later. In: Personal website. Waubgeshig Rice, July 31, 2016, accessed June 5, 2020 . 
2. ^ Indigenous journalists share a love of storytelling. In: The Ryerson Connection. Ryerson University , June 2019, accessed June 5, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Waubgeshig Rice: Reclaiming our names. In: Personal website. Waubgeshig Rice, June 28, 2019, accessed June 5, 2020 . 
4. ^ Dystopian novel pays 'homage to the everyday people on reserves across Canada'. Toronto Star , October 12, 2018, accessed June 5, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Waubgeshig Rice to write sequel to the bestselling novel of the Moon Crusted Snow. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, April 28, 2020, accessed June 5, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Cass sets up Prodco in Vancouver. C21Media, October 12, 2018, accessed June 5, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Waubgeshig Rice wins 2019 Evergreen Award for Moon of the Crusted Snow. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, October 28, 2019, accessed June 5, 2020 .