Helen Knott is an Indigenous spoken word poet, grassroots activist, leader and social worker from the Prophet River First Nation.
[1] Residing in Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada, Knott has published a number of poems and short pieces of creative non-fiction in Red Rising Magazine, the Malahat Review, through CBC Arts, and in a compendium entitled Surviving Canada: Indigenous People Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal.
[2][3] Most recently, she published her first book, In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience, and is currently writing Taking Back the Bones, which has been described as an "Indigenous female manifesto".
Based on this personal connection to her tribal lands, she decided to advocate for those involved in the controversial construction of the Site C dam.
[14] The construction of Site C is alleged to violate the previously established Treaty 8, which states the First Nations could continue their traditional practices of hunting, trapping, fishing, and collecting medicinal plants "for as long as the sun shines, the rivers flow and the grass grows.