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Weesquachak and the Lost Ones, Theytus Books, 1998.

Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People Bibliography.

Her work discusses traditional religious and social customs of the Ojibwe in northern Ontario, as well as the incursion of modernity on their culture. Slipperjack-Farrell is also an accomplished visual artist and a certified First Nations hunter. Her first novel, Honour the Sun, about a young girl growing up in a tiny Ojibwa community in northern Ontario, earned rave reviews and is widely used schools.

Slipperjack-Farrell has retained much of the traditional religion and heritage of her people, all of which inform her writing. She contributed stories to the Dear Canada anthologies Hoping for Home: Stories of Arrival and A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas. Her prior novels include Honour the Sun, Silent Words, Weesquachak and the Lost Ones, Little Voice, Weesquachak and Dog Tracks. In 2005, she completed a Doctoral program at the University of Western Ontario. (History) in 1988 a B.Ed in 1989 and a Master of Education in 1993. She went to residential school for several years, finished high-school in Thunder Bay.Īfter graduating from high school Slipperjack-Farrell successfully completed a B.A. Her family later moved to a community along the railway mainline. Slipperjack learned traditional stories and crafts from her family and has retained much of the traditional religion and heritage of her people. Slipperjack-Farrell spent her formative years on her father's trap line on Whitewater Lake.

Ruby Slipperjack-Farrell is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Indigenous Learning at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She is a member of Eabametoong First Nation. Ruby Slipperjack, or Ruby Slipperjack-Farrell, (born 1952) is an Ojibwe writer and painter.