Tomson Highway

Tomson Highway

male, 58 years old
novelist, Order of Canada, LGBT writer, Dora Mavor Moore Award, fromNorthernRegion, Manitoba, children's author…From Canada, born in Brochet, Manitoba, Canada
Tomson Highway, CM (born December 6, 1951) is a Cree playwright, novelist, and children's author from Brochet, Manitoba. He is the celebrated...
René Highway

René Highway

male, deceased (1990)
stage actor, First Nations actor, dancer, AIDS-related death, Canadian, actor…From Canada, fromNorthernRegion, Manitoba
René Highway was a Canadian dancer and actor of Cree descent from Brochet, Manitoba. He was the brother of playwright Tomson Highway, with whom he f...
Billy Merasty

Billy Merasty

male
film actor, stardom, From Canada, First Nations, fromNorthernRegion, Manitoba, The Red Green Show…born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Billy Merasty (born in Brochet, Manitoba) is a Canadian actor of Cree descent. He moved to Toronto at the age of 17, and launched his acting career...
Helen Betty Osborne

Helen Betty Osborne

female, deceased (1971)
Canadian, metis, aboriginal, cree, murder victim, immunity…fromNorthernRegion, Manitoba
Helen Betty Osborne, or Betty Osborne (1952 - November 13, 1971), was a Cree Aboriginal woman from Norway House reserve who was kidnapped and...
Rod Bruinooge

Rod Bruinooge

male, 36 years old
fromNorthernRegion, Manitoba, member of parliament, Winnipeg South, Conservative Party of Canada MP, member of the Canadian House of Commons, Parliamentary Secretary…From Manitoba
Rod E. Bruinooge is a Canadian politician, businessman and filmmaker. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Winnipeg South in the...