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= Dawn Dumont = Dawn Dumont is a Plains Cree comedian, activist, actor, and author. She was born in the Okanese First Nation Reservation in Saskatchewan, Canada, where she was raised and lived for most of her life. Dumont started her career as a stand-up comic and later went on and expanded into becoming a comedy writer for stage, radio, film, and television. She would later continue to further her career and get into acting, TV hosting , and into a speaker role. During this time Dumont would also start her career as an author.

Early Life
Dawn Dumont grew up on the Okanese First Nation Reservation in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. She describes her home as “quite possibly the smallest reservation in the world”. She often uses her first hand experience of growing up in a reservation in her writing and stand up comedy bits. Her book Nobody Cries at Bingo is a first hand experience of her life and the life of the Dumont family in the reservation.

Career Overview
Dumont's career as a comedian began in Canada, where she performed on the stages of Yuk Yuk and the Laugh Resort. But she soon moved on to bigger stages all across North American like the New York’s Comic Strip and the New York Comedy Club. Dumont would tell interesting and often funny stories about and from her home reservation and as well as her move to New York, joking about common problems Native people face in the city such as being confused for other races. Dumont describes her sense of humor like that of many other Native people, utilizing humor as a mechanism for coping and a tool for political commentary.

Dumont is also an activist on issues like racism and sexism. She herself said in an interview that she was once told that if one is born Indigenous, they are born an activist. That just by existing they are a sort of resistance to oppression. She said that this formed a lot of  pressure on her and other people. But by using humor she channeled that pressure into something creative without becoming bitter.

She is also a writer of many published works. In her books she uses her personal experiences as well as her background as an indigenous person to write her books give insight to the life, culture and history of Natives.

In 2006, Dumont began her acting career in a film Most Guys Today, which was a film about young single people dating in Toronto, Canada. And starred in another film in 2010, Alberta Comedy Spectacular - Turtle Island Too, this film was a grouping of various comedy performances by different comedians. She also co-hosts a comedic/documentary series, which currently airs on APTN, called Fish out of Water. In this series Dumont and her co- host, comedian Don Kelly, take a crash course in the skills and challenges that Aboriginal peoples had to master in order to survive.

Publications
Dawn Dumont is a very accomplished woman, not only as a comedian but also a writer. Her works often use her personal experiences to inspire her books.

Nobody Cries At Bingo was published on March 31,2011.

Rose's Run was published on October 1, 2014

Glass Beads was published on May 1, 2017