Know your contemporary Indigenous artists

This quiz puts the spotlight on some very talented Indigenous artists and their achievements. Learn about them by filling in the blanks with the correct answer in the sentences below. You’ll also test your knowledge of English writing conventions!

1. Florent Vollant, an Innu Placeholder for the answer, has produced several solo albums.
2. Anishinaabe painter Leland Bell belongs to the Woodland school of art, also known as Legend Painting or Placeholder for the answer Painting.
3. Yves Sioui Durand is the first Indigenous artist to win the Placeholder for the answer for theatre.
4. Black And Grey is a pop-rock / alternative band from Membertou First Nation Placeholder for the answer that has become a voice against bullying.
5. At the age of 23, Naomi Fontaine contributed to the vitality of Indigenous Placeholder for the answer with the publication of her novel Kuessipan.
6. At Vancouver International Airport, Susan Point’s sculpture Flight greets travellers from all over the globe. _____ the largest spindle whorl in the world.
7. For the album Taima, produced in Placeholder for the answer with Alain Auger, singer Elisapie Isaac won a Juno Award for Indigenous recording of the year.
8. Tanya Tagaq Gillis is an award-winning Placeholder for the answer throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuuttiaq) in Nunavut.
9. Rapper Samian, a multidisciplinary Placeholder for the answer published a photography collection titled Enfants de la terre.
10. Placeholder for the answer poet Katherena Vermette won a Governor General’s Award for her poetry collection North End Love Songs (which appeared in French as Ballades d’amour du North End).
  
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