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{{Short description|Kwantlen-Canadian poet, playwright, and archaeologist}}
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'''Joseph A. Dandurand''' is a [[Kwantlen First Nation|Kwantlen]] person (Xalatsep) from [[Kwantlen First Nation]] in [[British Columbia]]. He is a poet, playwright, and archaeologist.
Dandurand received a Diploma in [[Performing arts|Performing Arts]] from [[Algonquin College]] and studied Theatre and Direction at the [[University of Ottawa]]. His produced plays include ''Shake'', ''Crackers and Soup'' (1994), ''No Totem for My Story'' (1995), ''Where Two Rivers Meet'' (1995), and ''Please Don't Touch the Indians'' (1998) for the '''Red Path Theater''' in Chicago. He has also authored a radio script, ''St Mary's'' which was produced by [[CBC Radio]] in 1999. His latest play ''Shake'', was featured at the 20th ''Weesageechak Begins to Dance'' festival of new plays in Toronto, Ontario.
His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and are collected in ''Upside Down Raven, I Touched the Coyote's Tongue'', and ''burning for the dead and scratching for the poor'', Looking into the eyes of my forgotten dreams, Shake, 2005, Buried, 2007, and ''I Want,'' published by Leaf Press in 2015.
He was the Indigenous Storyteller in Residence at [[Vancouver Public Library]] in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Logo for Indigenous Storyteller in Residence Indigenous Storyteller in Residence |url=https://www.vpl.ca/storyteller |website=vpl.ca |publisher=Vancouver Public Library |accessdate=May 1, 2019}}</ref>
In 2022 he was the winner of the [[Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize]].<ref>Deborah Dundas, [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2022/11/02/writers-trust-2022-book-award-winners-collect-270000-in-prizes.html "Writers’ Trust 2022 book award winners collect $270,000 in prizes"]. ''[[Toronto Star]]'', November 2, 2022.</ref>
== Theatre work ==
Joseph has been a ''Playwright-in-Residence'' for the Museum of Civilization in Hull, in 1995 and for '''Native Earth''' in Toronto in 1996. [[Arigon Starr]] acted in his ''Wooden Indian Woman''.
== Books by Joseph A. Dandurand ==
=== Plays ===
Please Do Not Touch the Indians,  renegade planets publishing.
=== Poetry ===
* "Buried", skyuks press 2007
* ''shake'', skyuks press 2005
* ''looking into the eyes of my forgotten dreams'', [[Kegedonce Press]], 2000. Reprinted by Hushion House (Feb. 2004)
* Review in Prairie Fire: a Canadian Magazine of New Writing
''Upside Down Raven''
''I Touched the Coyote's Tongue'',
''burning for the dead and scratching for the poor''
*''I Want'' (Leaf Press, 2015)
=== Anthologies ===
* ''North American Indian Drama'', [[Alexander Street Press]].
* ''Genocide of the Mind'', [[Marijo Moore]] (Editor), Thunder's Mouth Press.
* Gatherings, The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples
* A Retrospective of the First Decade, Volume 10, Theytus Books.
* ''An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English'',
* [[Daniel David Moses]] & Terry Goldie (Editors), [[Oxford University Press]].
* ''Mother Earth Perspectives: Gatherings'', Vol. III, Theytus Books, Ltd.
* ''Unmasking the Faces of Our Divided Nations: Gatherings'', Vol. II, Theytus Books, Ltd.
== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/dandurand/ Author's page at hanksville.org]
* [http://www.kegedonce.com/index.php?p=authors/Joseph Author's page at Kegedonce Press]
* ''This article incorporates text from {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928101128/http://www.nativewiki.org/Joseph_Dandurand Nativewiki]}} under the [[GFDL]] license.''
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