A little bit about Cree Nomad
The Cree Nomad is an award-winning Activist, Author, Independent Contractor, and Content Creator based out of Edmonton, AB. Their Amazon Best-selling debut novel Hey, June was released in February 2024, but they began writing on the roof of their mom’s trailer in the small northern native community of East Prairie Métis Settlement when they were a kid.
Writing has brought them far. When East Prairie Métis Settlement suffered a devastating wildfire in 2023, it was their articles about the climate event and other similar events in Indigenous communities that got them noticed. They then were nominated into the North American Youth Delegate Knowledge Holder position for the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) within the UNFCCC in 2024, where they travelled to COP28 in Dubai, UAE, to share their community’s experience in order to inform international climate policy. This launched their career in international climate activism, where they focus on asserting Indigenous Sovereignty and placing climate mitigation into the hands of Indigenous folks globally. They now continue to do consultation work at the local and international level and joined the Re-Earth Initiative International Indigenous Climate Policy Fellowship in 2026.
When not writing stellar novels and kicking international climate action ass, they can be found sharing their Métis-Cree culture, life, and dancing on their social media platforms or having too many cups of coffee at their nohkom’s house.
Me and my nohkom - the first writer in our family! (I’m on the right)
A little bit about Britney Supernault…
I am Métis-Cree from East Prairie Métis Settlement in Treaty 8 Territory (Northern Alberta). Growing up, I didn’t know much about the difference between my Métis identity and my Cree one. All I knew was that I was native.
It was an underappreciated privilege to grow up in my community, encased in my language and culture. I ate moose my dad hunted, rabbit stew my nohkom prepared, and drank cedar tea my mother made. My life was always intertwined with the land, woven by the hands of my parents and grandparents. This has informed a large portion of my work as an Otipemisiwak-Nehiyaw, two-spirit writer, activist, and artist.
The name Cree Nomad came to me when I was 18 years old. I spent my formative early adulthood years backpacking and never feeling settled in one place. At the time, I felt like a ‘bad’ native because my heart seemed to pull me everywhere but my ancestral land. However, as I came to learn more about my ancestors and their traditional nomadic ways, I learned that my love of travel was inherited. While nowadays I may have chosen the name ‘Métis-Cree Nomad’, I honour and respect the young person still coming to understand themselves and their identity.
That is why my work largely falls under the name. The rest of that story, I’ll leave for another book someday.