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CBC Books | CBC | Posted: March 21, 2017 6:48 PM | Last Updated: March 22, 2017

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Caption: Tracey Lindberg is an award-winning academic writer and professor of Indigenous law. (CBC)

Tracey Lindberg's novel Birdie was defended by Bruce Poon Tip on Canada Reads 2016.
Tracey Lindberg is a lawyer, professor, activist, blues singer and expert in indigenous law. A citizen of As'in'i'wa'chi Ni'yaw Nation, she was raised in northern Alberta. Lindberg describes herself as the next in a long line of argumentative Cree women, and was the first aboriginal Canadian woman to complete her graduate law degree at Harvard. She currently lives in Edmonton and Ottawa and teaches at the University of Ottawa and Athabasca University. She has published many legal articles in areas related to indigenous law and indigenous women. Birdie is her first novel.
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Canada Reads

Media Video | Exhibitionists : Canada Reads 2016 authors dissect their first sentences

Caption: The authors in this year's competition — Anita Rau Badami, Lawrence Hill, Tracey Lindberg, Saleema Nawaz and Michael Winter — read their books' crucial first sentences

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Media Audio | The Next Chapter : Tracey Lindberg on "Birdie"

Caption: Author Tracey Lindberg on her debut novel, which is in the running for this year's Canada Reads.

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Media Audio | Unreserved : The darkness and light of Birdie reflects author Tracey Lindberg's own life story

Caption: Tracey Lindberg's first novel, Birdie, draws on the humour of her own family and the darkness of being a sexual abuse survivor.

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Media Audio | Q : Tracey Lindberg's Birdie celebrates women's strength

Caption: First-time novelist Tracey Lindberg on her comedic look at one woman's quest to recover from a tragic past.

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