June McLeod

Darrel James McLeod (July 13, 1957 – August 29, 2024) was a Canadian Cree writer. His memoir Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age, an account of his childhood experience of physical and sexual abuse, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards and was a shortlisted finalist for the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize. McLeod was born in 1957 in Athabasca, Alberta. Originally from Treaty 8 Cree territory near Smith, Alberta, McLeod went on to work as a te…