Marie Annharte Baker

Marie Annharte Baker (born 1942) is a Canadian Anishnabe (Ojibwa) poet and author, a cultural critic and activist, and a performance artist/contemporary storyteller.

[2] Through books, poetry, essays, interviews and performance Annharte articulates and critiques life from western Canada, with a special focus on women, urban, indigenous, disabilities, academic, and poverty-centric (or "street") awareness and issues/foibles.

Marie Annharte Baker was considered to be part of a specific Anishinabe nation, the Obibwa.

Baker considers herself self-taught but she did return to education in the 1970s and this included a degree in English for the University of Winnipeg.

After her teaching career, Baker returned to Winnipeg and began to work as a community family advocate.