Melissa Mollen Dupuis

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Melissa Mollen Dupuis
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Mollen Dupuis in 2021
Born
Ekuanitshit, Quebec, Canada
Occupations
  • Film director
  • radio personality
  • activist
Known for Indigenous rights activism
Movement Idle No More

Melissa Mollen Dupuis is an Innu film director, radio host, and Indigenous rights activist from Ekuanitshit, Quebec, Canada. Mollen Dupuis is a prominent figure in the Indigenous rights movement in Quebec, particularly as a co-founder of the province's branch of Idle No More. She has hosted the radio show Kuei! Kwe! on Ici Radio-Canada Première since 2021.

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Early life

Mollen Dupuis was born in Ekuanitshit, an Innu reserve in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. [1]

Activism

Mollen Dupuis and fellow Indigenous rights activist Widia Larivière  [ fr ] founded the Quebec branch of the Idle No More movement in 2012. Since that time, both Mollen Dupuis and Larivière have been spokespersons for the movement in Quebec. [2] [3] [4] Mollen Dupuis was inspired by the actions of Mohawk land defenders like Ellen Gabriel and Kahentiiosta to become involved in Idle No More. [5] [6] : 91 

In 2017, Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award was awarded to Canada's Indigenous rights movement. [7] Mollen Dupuis and Larivière received the award on behalf of Quebec's Idle No More. [5] [7]

Career

In 2014, Mollen Dupuis was appointed chair of the Board of Directors of Wapikoni Mobile, an organization dedicated to Indigenous cinema. [8] Since 2021, she has hosted the radio show Kuei! Kwe! on Ici Radio-Canada Première.[ citation needed ]

In a collaboration with writer and illustrator Elise Gravel, Mollen Dupuis published Nutshimit:Un bain de forêt (Nutshimit: In the Forest), a non-fiction book for young readers, in 2023. [9] Nutshimit, which explores Innu culture through Mollen Dupuis's first-person narrative and Gravel's illustrations, [10] earned Mollen Dupuis and Gravel the 2024 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award in the Children's Picture Book category. [1]

Mollen Dupuis has a podcast, Parole Autochtone, on which "she speaks on a multitude of subjects about the daily life of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people[ sic ] in Canada." [11]

Publications

Filmography

Mollen Dupuis has directed several short films focused on the realities of Indigenous lives. [12]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Melissa Mollen Dupuis, Elise Gravel, Kevin Sands win 2024 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards". CBC Books . June 17, 2024. Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  2. ↑ Lebel, Anouk (November 9, 2017). "L'héritage actif d'Idle No More" [The active legacy of Idle No More]. Gazette des femmes (in French). Archived from the original on January 23, 2018. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ Delacour, Emmanuel (December 18, 2013). "Un an plus tard" [One year later]. Le Journal de Montréal . Archived from the original on April 17, 2023. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  4. ↑ Bordeleau, Jean-Louis (December 12, 2017). "Idle No More Québec, cinq ans plus tard" [Idle No More Quebec, five years later]. Radio-Canada (in Canadian French). Archived from the original on April 17, 2023. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Massicolli, Elisabeth; Pageau-Marcotte, Audrey (October 15, 2020). "Activisme: Entretien avec Melissa Mollen Dupuis" [Activism: Interview with Melissa Mollen Dupuis]. Elle Quebec (in French). Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  6. ↑ Bertrand, Karine (2023). "Indigenous Women's Cinema in Quebec: The Works and Words of Mohawk Filmmaker Sonia Bonspille Boileau". In Carruthers, Lee; Tepperman, Charles (eds.). Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium. Montreal & Kingston: McGill–Queen's University Press. pp. 87–103. ISBN   978-0-2280-1492-8.
  7. 1 2 "Prix Ambassadeur de la Conscience 2017. Alicia Keys et le mouvement des droits des autochtones du Canada, lauréats de la prestigieuse récompense d'Amnesty International" [2017 Ambassador of Conscience Award: Alicia Keys and Canada's Indigenous rights movement win prestigious Amnesty International award]. Amnesty France (in French). April 13, 2017. Archived from the original on February 9, 2025. Retrieved August 5, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Melissa Mollen Dupuis, nouvelle présidente du Conseil d'administration du Wapikoni" [Melissa Mollen Dupuis, new chair of the Wapikoni Board of Directors]. Wapikoni (in French). January 5, 2015. Archived from the original on September 24, 2020.
  9. 1 2 Mollen Dupuis, Melissa; Gravel, Elise (2023). Nutshimit: Un bain de forêt (in French). Toronto: Scholastic. ISBN   978-1-0397-0142-7.
  10. 1 2 "Nutshimit: In the Woods by Melissa Mollen Dupuis, Illustrated by Elise Gravel". CBC Books . August 3, 2023. Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  11. ↑ Perlini, Erika; Sanderson, Megan; Krysa, Sarah; Blyth, Simone (October 19, 2023). "Four Female French-Speaking Indigenous Artists to Celebrate on Canada's Day of National Truth and Reconciliation". The Cord . Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Melissa Mollen Dupuis". Wapikoni . Archived from the original on October 30, 2020. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  13. ↑ "O". Wapikoni (in French). 2012. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Nanapush et la Tortue" [Nanapush and the Turtle]. Wapikoni (in French). 2013. Archived from the original on January 23, 2019.
  15. ↑ "Nitanish – À ma fille" [Nitanish – To My Daughter]. Wapikoni (in French). Archived from the original on November 26, 2019.
  16. ↑ "Respecter la roue" [Respect the Wheel]. Wapikoni (in French). 2016. Archived from the original on February 25, 2020.
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