Dawn Dumont
Dawn Dumont
Dawn Dumont is a Plains Cree comedian, activist, actor, and author[1]. She was born in the Okanese First Nation Reservation in Saskatchewan, Canada, where she was raised and lived for most of her life. Dumont started her career as a stand-up comic in Canadian stages; Yuk Yuks and Laugh Resort[2]. She went and expanded her career to move on to becoming a comedy writer for stage, radio, film, and television. But she soon moved on to the United States and began performing there and all over North America. She will later move continue to further her career and get into acting, TV hosting, and into a speaker role. During this time Dumont starts her career as a author.
Early Life
Dawn Dumont grew up on the Okanese First Nation Reservation in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. She describes her home as “quite possibly the smallest reservation in the world”[3]. She often uses her first hand experience of growing up in a reservation in her writing and stand up comedy bits. Her book Nobody Cries at Bingo is a first hand experience of her life and the life of the Dumont family in the reservation.
Career Overview
Dumonts career as a comedian in Canada where she performed on the stages of Yuk Yuk and the Laugh Resort[2]. But she soon moved on to bigger stages all across North American like the New York’s Comic Strip and the New York Comedy Club. She tells interesting and often funny stories about and from her home reservation and as well as her move to New York, joking about common problems Native people face in the city, like being confused for other races. Dumont's sense of humor is like that of many other Native people, utilizing humor as a mechanism for coping and a tool for political commentary.
Dumont is also an activist on issues like racism and sexism. She herself said in an interview that she was once told that if one is born Indigenous, they are born an activist[3]. That just by existing they are a sort of resistance to oppression. She said that this formed a lot of pressure on her and other people. But by using humor she channeled that pressure into something creative without becoming bitter.
She is also a writer of many published works. In her books she uses her personal experiences as well as her background as an indigenous person to write her books give insight to the life, culture and history of Natives.
Publications
Dawn Dumont is a very accomplished woman,not only as a comedian but also a writer. Her works often use her personal experiences to inspire her books.
Nobody Cries At Bingo[4] was published on March 31,2011.
Rose's Run[4] was published on October 1, 2014
Glass Beads[4] was published on May 1, 2017
References
- ↑ "Dawn Dumont". https://www.thistledownpress.com/html/search/Authors/Dawn_Dumont/index.cfm.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Indian Summer 2006: Dawn Dumont" (in en-gb). https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/hidvl-collections/item/1666-dawn-dumont.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "In Search of Laughter: An Interview with Dawn Dumont | Room Magazine". https://roommagazine.com/interview/search-laughter-interview-dawn-dumont.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Error: no
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