Carleton Master’s Student wins the 2009 “Canadian Aboriginal Writing Challenge” award

Howard Adler, MA student in Canadian Studies, has won the Canadian Aboriginal Writing Challenge (19-29 age category) with his story, Johnny Seven Fires.  The story is written as a video script and is mostly written in Ojibwe. Howard is Anishinaabe from Lac des Mille Lac First Nation. He completed a BA degree at Trent University before coming to Carleton. He is currently writing his MA thesis on the history of flooding of the Lac de Mille Lac First Nation and the effects of this on the people who were displaced.

The Canadian Aboriginal Writing Challenge is an initiative from the Dominion Institute. Please read his intriguing (and prize-winning) script at www.our-story.ca/HowardAdler.html