Shannon Thunderbird

Shannon Thunderbird
Origin Canada
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, speaker, educator, playwright, author
Website www.shannonthunderbird.com

Shannon Thunderbird is a Coast Tsimshian First Nations singer-songwriter, speaker, educator, recording artist, playwright, and author.[1][2]

Biography

She is an elder of the Giluts'aaw tribe, Royal House of Niis'gumiik, Gispwudwada (Orca) Clan.[3] She is a medicine wheel teacher and artist/educator who communicates time-honoured indigenous knowledge in a variety of ways, workshops/seminars, drumming circles, stage shows, written word.[4] Thunderbird has worked with thousands of people all over North America, Europe and Asia. In particular, she and her performance partner, Sandy Horne of the Canadian synthpop band the Spoons, has presented over two thousand shows in elementary, secondary schools, universities and colleges across Canada and the United States.[5] She is the president and artistic director of Teya Peya Productions, a First Nations arts/education company she founded in 1991 that includes the Thunderbird Native Theatre of which she is the artistic director.[6]

Her "Thunderous" touring shows include "Wolf Thunder: Big Drums Are Calling!", "Turtle Thunder Sings", "Sweet Thunder Medicine Wheel", "Daughter of the Copper Shield", "Thunder Rolling in the Mountains", Thunder Wolf Songwriting, Vocals and Drumming, Spirit Thunder Drumming and vocal workshops about cultural diversity and North American indigenous cultures.[6]

Thunderbird is also an advocate for Indigenous rights, pointing out the injustice and repercussions of the Indian Act.[7] She is also an advocate for right of Indigenous women to take part in drumming.[8]

Written works

  • Medicine Wheel and Character Education in the 21st Century, by Shannon Thunderbird, Teya Peya Books, 2010. Revised Ed. 2014
  • Featured Contributor: We Do It This Way, ED. Dr. April Go Forth, Thoz Womenz Inc., Alturas, California, 2014
  • Featured Contributor: The Art of Living, A Practical Guide to Being Alive. ED. Claire Elizabeth Terry, Kairos, Spain, 2008.

Discography

  • Wind Centre (released, March 2011 with Performance Partner, Sandy Horne)
  • May Your Spirit Be Strong[9]
  • New CD, West Wind & the Woodland Sister due out early 2016.

References

  1. ↑ "Shanon Thunderbird CBC Radio 3 Bio". CBC Radio 3. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  2. ↑ "Home | Waterloo News". Newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  3. ↑ Thunderbird, Shannon (2009). "Wisdom of the Ages: From Houses to Monsters, the Naming Practices of the Coast Tsimshian Nation". Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences – via YorkSpace Institutional Repository.
  4. ↑ Hakikur, Rahman (2008-08-31). Selected Readings on Global Information Technology: Contemporary Applications: Contemporary Applications. IGI Global. ISBN 9781605661179.
  5. ↑ eMinor. "Shannon Thunderbird and Sandy Horne | Singer Songwriter from Toronto, ON, CA". ReverbNation. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  6. 1 2 "First National Congress Presents Unique Learning Opportunity for Canadian Artists and Organizations - culture365". culture365. 2013-05-06. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  7. ↑ "Shannon Thunderbird | richardhughes.ca". richardhughes.ca. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  8. ↑ Morgan, C. W. C. (2010-03-16). Our Past, Our Present, Our Future. America Star Books. ISBN 9781683944188.
  9. ↑ Conference Program, University of Windsor at the Wayback Machine (archived February 17, 2008)



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