Joseph A. Dandurand

Joseph A. Dandurand is a Kwantlen Indian (Xalatsep) from Kwantlen First Nation in British Columbia. He is a poet, playwright, and archaeologist

Joseph received a Diploma in 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. Joseph has also authored a radio script, "St Mary's" which was produced by CBC Radio in 1999. His latest play "Shake", was recently 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, and Buried,2007.

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.

Writing Available Online

* [http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/dandurand/poems/StMarysIII.html St. Mary's III]
* [http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/dandurand/poems/StMarysIV.html St. Mary's IV]
* [http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/dandurand/poems/paint.html Paint]
* [http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/dandurand/poems/FtLangley.html Fort Langley]

Books by Joseph A. Dandurand

Plays

Please Do Not Touch the Indians, renegade planets publishing.

* [http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2006_11_15_archive.html Review of the play]

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)
* [http://www.kegedonce.com/featuredbook_lookingintotheeyes.php Publisher's page]
* 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"

Anthologies

* [http://alexanderstreet.com/products/indr.htm "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.

** [http://www.oup.com/ca/isbn/0-19-542078-0 Publisher's page]

* "Mother Earth Perspectives: Gatherings", Vol. III, Theytus Books, Ltd.

* "Unmasking the Faces of Our Divided Nations: Gatherings", Vol. II, Theytus Books, Ltd.

Related Links

* [http://www.kegedonce.com/index.php?p=authors/Joseph Author's page at Kegedonce Press]

* [http://artscenecal.com/Announcements/0304/AutryMuseum0304.html Joseph at the Autry]

* [http://www.arigonstarr.com/Diva/dox/news11_2003.html Arigon Starr on playing Wooden Indian Woman] in Joseph's play

* [http://www.arigonstarr.com/Diva/dox/news2_2004.html Arigon Starr's return as Wooden Indian Woman]

* [http://campus.jewell.edu/headlines/achieve/winter2005/nativeVoices.html Director Randy Reinholz on "Please Don't Touch the Indians]

* [http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1080760339 "Please Don't Touch the Indians"] in "Indian Country Today"

Notes

* "This article incorporates text from [http://www.nativewiki.org/Joseph_Dandurand Nativewiki] under the GFDL license."