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Tomson Highway Drama
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Tomson Highway's awards and accolades include:
-Ten honorary degrees, from various universities
-A member of the Order of Canada
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- Maclean's magazine most important people in Canadian history 1998
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-National Aboriginal Achievement Award in Arts and Culture 2001
-Multiple Dora Mavor Moore Awards
-Nomination for the Governor General's Award
Tomson Highway Interview
Tomson Highway
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Scene from the Rez Sisters
Playwright, Musician, Novelist and Children's Author
A Summary of the Life of Tomson Highway
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-Highway was born on December 6th,1951 in Brochet, Manitoba.
Sam Osborne and Tyra Hayward
International Recognition
-He attended Guy Hill Indian Residential School from ages 6 to 15.
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-He got his Bachelor of the Arts in Honours Music in 1975 and his B.A. in English in 1976.
Teaching engagements at universities, colleges, schools, theatres, nightclubs, concert halls, bookstores, art galleries, and other institutions.
He has criss-crossed North America, Europe, and the world with his readings, lectures, performances
-He worked as a social worker for seven years on reserves across Ontario and Canada.
- In 1986 he was the artistic director of Canada's only professional first nation theater.
- Now Canada has the worlds most active aboriginal theater
- First aboriginal playwrite to be inducted in the Canadian order.
All this has made Tomson Highway the most famous and recognized Canadian aboriginal playwright. With him spreading awarness of aboriginals and is also said to be one of Canada’s foremost feminist playwrights. which he says comes from his roots as a Cree
-He published his first play the Rez Sisters in 1986