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Helen Knott
Helen Knott belongs to the Bear and Cree tribe from the Prophet River First Nation, in British Colombia. Helen works as an activist and a poet for the Indigenous land rights in Canada. In her writing, she emphasizes the violence and injustice that Indigenous women experience. In an interview with the Nobel Women's Initiative, Helen recalls how her advocacy first started with the indigenous grassroots camp. She also claims that her motivation is derived from her daughter and the wish to create change in the youth community.

Helen's poem, The Things We Taught Our Daughters is featured in #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women written and edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale, talks about an international anguish. Another work of hers, also known as Your Eyes They Curve Around Me, inspired after the dissapearance of a friend's sister, touches on the stereotypes that Indigenous women face. Helen claims that the purpose behind her work is not to publicize Indigenous women's suffering, but rather as a way to contribute hope and healing, through awareness.

Selected works
Your Eyes They Curve Around Me

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women