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Tasha Spillett is an indigenous (Nehiyaw and Trinidadian) author, artist, and educator who hails from the Opaskwayak traditional territory in Manitoba, Canada. She received her Master of Education degree in Indigenous Land-based Education from the University of Saskatchewan College of Education. Tasha received the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. She is currently lecturing at both the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg. She is presently working toward her PhD in Education at the University of Saskatchewan, and expects to complete her dissertation in 2020.

One of Tasha's poems, titled "Little Sister", appears in the book #NotYourPrincess. This award-winning and important collection of art and poetry by indigenous women is an examination of the struggles, dreams, perseverance, and triumphs of indigenous women in the modern world.

In March 2019, High Water Press published Tasha Spillett's first graphic novel, Surviving the City, illustrated by Natasha Donovan. The story is about two indigenous teenage girls, one of whom is in danger of being sent to a group home due to her grandmother’s health problems. The story, in a larger sense, is meant to draw attention to the plight of the missing and murdered native women and two-spirit people, which get virtually no attention from outsiders and their news sources. The graphic novel is book one in what is called the “Debwe series”.

Among the things Tasha holds close to her heart is indigenous feminism. According to Spillett, the primary mission of indigenous feminism is "protecting our land and waters, and putting our families back together again." Another of Tasha's passions is centered around what we do with our talents. When the province of Manitoba named Tasha the Indigenous Educator of the Month in October 2016, she said, "The gifts that we were given aren’t for our individual benefit but for that of the collective, so share them generously with one another. It’s all of our responsibility to work towards becoming good Ancestors."

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