Lenore Keeshig-Tobias is an Anishinabe storyteller, poet, scholar, and journalist and a major advocate for Indigenous writers in Canada.
[2] Along with Daniel David Moses and Tomson Highway, she was a founding member of the Indigenous writers' collective, Committee to Reestablish the Trickster.
[5] 2001–present worked at Parks Canada as a naturalist, cultural interpreter, and oral history researcher; and in the off-season she teaches at George Brown College in Toronto.
[5] From June 22–24, 1983, Keeshig-Tobias was one of two representatives of Sweetgrass Magazine to attend a meeting at Pennsylvania State University to consider whether it would be possible to found an Indigenous newspapers association.
[11] This session produced a motion against cultural appropriation that was forwarded to the Writers' Union of Canada and passed by its general membership on June 6, 1992.