The Indian Medicine Shows: Two One-Act Plays

Daniel David Moses is a registered Delaware Indian, who was born in 1952 and grew up on a farm on the Six Nations lands located on the Grand River near Brantford, Ontario. He has written numerous plays such as The Indian Medicine Shows, Big Buck City, Brébeuf’s Ghost and Coyote City which was a finalist nominated for the 1991 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama; books of poetry including Sixteen Jesuses; and a collection of essays, Pursued by A Bear. He holds an Honours B.A. from York University and a M. F. A. from the University of British Columbia. Daniel participated in the 2004 Adelaide Festival Writers Week in South Australia and the Neva Book Forum in St. Petersburgh in the Russian Republic. He has also been Poet in Residence for Myty, Ktere Nas Spojuji/ Myths That Unite Us, the Prague-Toronto-Manitoulin Island Theatre Project with productions in Prague Czechoslovakia and Toronto, Manitoulin Island and Montreal Canada.