Ma-Nee Chacaby
Ma-Nee Chacaby is an Ojibwe-Cree writer and activist from Canada. She is most noted for her memoir, "A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder", which was co-authored by Mary Louisa Plummer and published by the University of Manitoba Press in 2016. The biography was awarded the U.S. Oral History Association's 2017 Book Award, as well as the Ontario Historical Society's 2018 Alison Prentice Award for Best Book on Women's History in Ontario. In addition, "A Two-Spirit Journey" was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award finalist for Lesbian Memoir/Biography at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017, and was shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher at the 2017 Manitoba Book Awards.

Born and raised in the remote Northern Ontario indigenous community of Ombabika, Chacaby escaped the Indian residential school system only because she was away hunting and trapping with her stepfather when government agents arrived in the community during the Sixties Scoop. She later lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Thunder Bay, Ontario, and sparked a local controversy when she openly identified herself as a lesbian in a television news story for Thunder Bay Television in 1988. She remained a local activist on LGBTQ and indigenous issues, and later began to create and exhibit work as a painter, before writing and publishing "A Two-Spirit Journey".

In 2019, "A Two-Spirit Journey" was published in French as "Un Parcours Bispirituel" by Les éditions du remue-ménage. That same year, Chacaby served as one of the grand marshals of the Fierté Montréal parade.
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