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Rebecca Thomas
Rebecca Thomas was born February 14, 1986 in Lennox Island, Nova Scotia. Thomas is a Mi'kmaw poet who served as the Poet Laureate for the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia from 2016-2018.

Early Life and Education
Rebecca Thomas is registered with Lennox Island First Nation. Her father is a survivor of the Shubenacadie Residential School. Thomas' parents separated when she was a child, and she grew up off-reserve in the town of Riverview, New Brunswick. Her father would bring her Mi'kmaw items when he visited her. Since some connection to Indigenous culture was stolen from him at the residential school, he emphasized its importance in Thomas' life. Much of Thomas' writing concerns estrangement and refamiliarization with Mi'kmaq language, culture, and history.

Thomas earned both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University.

Publications
I'm Finding My Talk (2019)

Swift Fox All Along (2020)

I Place You Into the Fire (2020)

Some Links
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/84115-giving-voice-to-indigenous-children-spotlight-on-rebecca-thomas.html

https://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dalhousie-originals/rebecca-thomas.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/indigenous-author-remove-poems-department-education-1.6049152

https://nimbus.ca/authors/bio/rebecca-thomas

https://www.strongnations.com/gs/show.php?gs=3&gsd=6611