Award-winning author and journalist Richard Wagamese has died.
Richard Wagamese profoundly told the stories of our peoples. We lost a great storyteller and he will be sorely missed.
— Perry Bellegarde (@perrybellegarde) March 11, 2017
He began life on a Northwestern Ontario First Nation where he was taken away from his family and bounced around foster homes before being adopted.
He’s the author of Medicine Walk, Indian Horse and many other books.
In 2014, Wagamese told an audience of 600 high school students at the Big Rothesay Read event that he loved their energy.
He said when he comes to a school to speak he doesn’t know where it will go but he gets a big whomp of energy and it sends him to places he does not expect.
Wagamese was in his early 60’s.
On Twitter, he is being remembered as a great person and writer.
