Curtis Jonnie (26 October 1946 – 12 January 2021), better known by his stage name Shingoose, was an Ojibwe singer and songwriter from Canada.
Inspired by the contemporaneous American Indian Movement, he began performing as a singer-songwriter, adopting his great-grandfather's name.
[5] Shingoose also toured extensively across Canada, performing shows in clubs and university campuses and on the folk festival circuit.
[6] In the early 1980s, Shingoose collaborated with Don Marks and Bill Britain on the First Nations musical play InDEO, in which he starred.
[1] He and Marks later cofounded Native Multimedia Productions, a television production company which created the First Nations current affairs program Full Circle, later retitled First Nations Magazine, for CKND-TV, and the 1989 television special Indian Time for CTV.
[9] He also worked in aboriginal programming and policy development for TVOntario,[8] and as director of education for the Canada Arts Foundation.
[2] During the COVID-19 pandemic in Manitoba, Shingoose died from the virus at a care home in Winnipeg, on 12 January 2021 and at the age of 74.