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About Tracey Lindberg

Tracey Lindberg is a writer, scholar, lawyer and Indigenous Rights activist from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation in British Columbia. She is Cree-Métis and a citizen of the As'in'i'wa'chi Ni'yaw Nation, Rocky Mountain Cree.

She won the Governor General's Gold Medal with her dissertation, Critical Indigenous Legal Theory, and her academic work earned her a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Traditional Knowledge, Legal Orders and Laws. Lindberg works with elders and spiritual leaders in Indigenous communities to record and translateIndigenous law. She taught law at Athabasca University and the University of Ottawa before moving to the University of Victoria.

Her debut novel, Birdie, was published in 2015 and is a national best-seller. It presents the path of healing through the main character, Bernice Meetos, a Cree woman who is trying to reconcile with her tragic past. Reviewers have noted how Birdie demonstrates the effects of colonization and transgenerational trauma on Indigenous families and speaks to a universal story of self-discovery. The novel was selected for the 2016 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by entrepreneur Bruce Poon Tip. The novel was also a finalist for the Alberta Literary Award for Fiction and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.

Tracey Lindberg writes about Turtle Island, Skinny Freda, Pat Johns, Northern Alberta, Molly's Reach, and Gibsons BC. Their best-known work is Birdie.

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