she was motivated both by her brother's recent death and a desire to protect Joseph's work. During the defence of a lawsuit, Boyden had provided a photocopy of his "status card", a document appearing to be an ID card for the Ontario Métis Aboriginal Association (also known as the Woodland Métis Tribe). Research by journalist Eric Andrew Gee led to the following comment in the 7 August 2017 issue of the Globe and Mail: "the OMAA ... is a complicated and in many ways troubled organization held in low esteem by some prominent Métis Canadians for its legal and financial misadventures over the years, and its lax membership policy that does not require any proof of Indigenous ancestry. Nor does the group provide "status cards" – Indian status can only be conferred by the federal government. The ID Joseph Boyden flourishes like a trump in his affidavit is little more than a piece of paper." Politics In 2015 Boyden condemned Stephen Harper during the 2015 Canadian federal election, calling his politics "race-baiting" and "fear-mongering". Bibliography Novels Three Day Road. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2005. (winner, the inaugural McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award; winner, the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award; winner, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, 2006; included in Canada Reads 2006; longlisted for the 2007 International Dublin Literary Award; nominated for the 2005 Governor General's Awards) Through Black Spruce. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2008. (winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, November 2008) The Orenda. Toronto: Hamish Hamilton, 2013. (longlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted nominee for the 2013 Governor General's Award for English fiction, winner of the 2014 Canada Reads competition) Wenjack. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2016. Short stories Born With a Tooth Toronto: Cormorant Books, 2001. Non-fiction From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans: A Mixed Blood Highway. Edmonton: NeWest, 2008 Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Riel And Gabriel Dumont. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2010 Kwe: Standing With Our Sisters. (editor) Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2014. (An anthology with more than fifty contributors to raise awareness of the crisis facing Indigenous women in Canada, with all proceeds going to Amnesty International's No More Stolen Sisters campaign) References Further reading Boyden, item at English-Canadian writers, Athabasca University, by J. McKay; with links added 1966 births Living people Canadian male novelists Canadian male short story writers Canadian people of Irish descent Canadian people of Scottish descent University of New Orleans faculty People from