Natasha Kanapé Fontaine (born 1991) is an Innu poet and actress. Born
in Pessamit, Quebec, Fontaine first became noticed in 2012 as part of
the Montreal poetry scene. Her first poetry collection, Do Not Enter
My Soul in Your Shoes, earned her the 2013 Prize of the Society of
Francophone Writers of America; her second, Manifeste Assi, was
released in 2014 and debuted at the Étonnants Voyageurs festival. In
2016 she was a guest of honour at the Rimouski Book Fair, alongside
Deni Ellis Béchard; the same year, the National Film Board of Canada
announced funding for 3 projects as part of the 150th Anniversary of
the founding of Canada, including #Legacies150, a photo-essay series
Fontaine is contributing to.From 2017 to 2019, Kanapé Fontaine played
the role of "Eyota Standing Bear", a First Nations incarcerated
criminal on the French-Canadian television drama Unité 9 [fr].
in Pessamit, Quebec, Fontaine first became noticed in 2012 as part of
the Montreal poetry scene. Her first poetry collection, Do Not Enter
My Soul in Your Shoes, earned her the 2013 Prize of the Society of
Francophone Writers of America; her second, Manifeste Assi, was
released in 2014 and debuted at the Étonnants Voyageurs festival. In
2016 she was a guest of honour at the Rimouski Book Fair, alongside
Deni Ellis Béchard; the same year, the National Film Board of Canada
announced funding for 3 projects as part of the 150th Anniversary of
the founding of Canada, including #Legacies150, a photo-essay series
Fontaine is contributing to.From 2017 to 2019, Kanapé Fontaine played
the role of "Eyota Standing Bear", a First Nations incarcerated
criminal on the French-Canadian television drama Unité 9 [fr].
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