Stephane Wuttunee

First published at 17, Plains Cree and French Canadian author and storyteller Stephane Wuttunee's writing credits include 2 1/2 years as a columnist for a national Native newspaper (THE WINDSPEAKER) and a book of short stories entitled FIRST FLIGHT - Tales Of The Nomad. Besides penning articles for Environment Canada and regional periodicals and newspapers such as The Nation and Alberta Sweetgrass News, he has also spent the better part of fifteen years toiling to create DREAMING THE PYRAMID. An experienced public speaker, Stephane has presented in schools and at conferences throughout Canada and the high Arctic, as well as in parts of New Zealand and Australia.

Stephane's faith in his dreams and nature has saved him many times. From 1991 to 1999, he was entrusted with the lives of seven young men and siblings, ranging in age from 14 to 19, on canoe trips that on several occasions nearly killed all of them. He and his crew have survived charging bears, paddling at midnight through military ordnance infested waters, canoeing alongside 400 foot freighters on the St. Lawrence seaway, riding six foot swells and floodwaters, and even facing a shotgun wielding individual at point blank range. He is a practitioner in the martial art of Ninjutsu and is at ease in any wilderness setting equipped with only a knife and matches. Aside from English, he is fluent in French and proficient in both Spanish and German. In April and May 2006, he walked across Newfoundland and half of Nova Scotia.