Geneviève McKenzie-Sioui
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Geneviève McKenzie-Sioui, sometimes performing under the name Shanipiap, is an Innu musician, writer, television creator, and activist in Quebec. Born in Matimekosh in 1956, she later relocated to Wendake. She is a singer-songwriter in the Innu language,{{Cite news|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/actualites-culturelles/146727/s-elever-par-le-conte|title=S'élever par le conte|year=2007|work=Le Devoir|access-date=9 August 2017|language=fr|issn=0319-0722}} and an author in both Innu and in French,{{Cite web|url=http://www.nativelynx.qc.ca/en/literature/genevieve-mckenzie-sioui/|title=Geneviève McKenzie- Sioui {{!}} Land InSights|website=www.nativelynx.qc.ca|access-date=9 August 2017}} has been the producer/director/presenter of her own children's television program on Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and TFO,{{Cite web|url=https://www.tfo.org/pdf/Education/Guides/shanipiap.pdf|title=Les Découvertes de Shanipiap|date=November 2005|website=TFO}} and has recently been active in the Idle No More movement.{{Cite news|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/societe/201306/21/01-4664011-idle-no-more-quebec-le-blame-jete-sur-les-chefs.php|title=Idle No More Québec: le blâme jeté sur les chefs {{!}} Marie-Pier Duplessis {{!}} Société|work=La Presse|access-date=9 August 2017|language=fr-CA}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/le-quotidien/actualites/201503/22/01-4854558-proteger-les-nappes-souterraines.php|title=Protéger les nappes souterraines {{!}} Katerine Belley-Murray {{!}} Actualités|work=La Presse|access-date=9 August 2017|language=fr-CA}}
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Category:21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters
Category:21st-century Canadian women writers
Category:21st-century First Nations musicians
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Category:Canadian women singer-songwriters
Category:21st-century Canadian drummers
Category:First Nations women singers
Category:People from Côte-Nord
Category:Canadian writers in French
Category:20th-century Canadian drummers
Category:Canadian women drummers
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