Richard Wagamese

Richard Wagamese was an Ojibwe Canadian author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in northwestern Ontario. He was best known for the novel Indian Horse, which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013, and he also wrote Keeper'n Me, Medicine Walk and Ragged Company, as well as the memoir One Native Life. A feature film of Indian Horse, directed by Stephen Campanelli, was released after Wagamese died in 2017.