Chelsea Vowel, who often writes as âpihtawikosisân (Cree syllabics: , IPA: , i.e., Métis, lit. "half-son"), is a Métis writer and lawyer from near Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta, whose work focuses on language, gender identity, and cultural resurgence. She has been published in the Huffington Post, The National Post, and The Globe and Mail. Co-host of the podcast Métis in Space and runner of the IndigenousXca Twitter account, Vowel has been noted as a "prominent and respected Métis blogger" and "one of the most visible of [the] new generation" of Métis intellectuals. , Vowel was completing a master's student in Native Studies and was a Cree language instructor at the University of Alberta. Education Vowel received a Bachelor in Education degree from the University of Alberta in 2000. After graduating, she taught in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, before returning to graduate with Bachelor of Law degree in 2009. After completing her law degree, she moved to Montreal, where she worked with Inuit youth who were in the foster care system, including those sentenced under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. In 2016, she returned to Alberta to begin a Masters program in Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Writing In 2014, she published two essays in the collection The Winter We Danced: Voices From the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement. In 2016, she released her first book, Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada, a collection of essays aimed at explaining Indigenous issues in the Canadian context to non-Indigenous people. The collection was praised for Vowel's "caustic style and astute insights" and compared favorably to Thomas King's The Inconvenient Indian. It earned Vowel a nomination for the Concordia University First Book Prize. Indigenous Writes was also featured on numerous 2017 and 2018 to-read lists by the CBC, Globe and Mail, and other publications. In 2018, Vowel contributed a poem to the critical anthology Refuse: CanLit in Ruins, which engages with historical and current issues in Canadian literature. In 2019, she contributed to the graphic novel anthology This Place: 150 Years Retold, which chronicles the last 150 years of colonialism in Canada through the perspectives of acclaimed Indigenous authors such as Richard Van Camp and Katherena Vermette. Activism Vowel is well known for her work promoting the protection and preservation of Indigenous languages in Canada, critiquing the public perception that Indigenous languages