Michelle Good

Michelle Good is a literary fiction author from south Central British Columbia best known for her debut novel “Five Little Indians.” Since she was little the impact of residential schools has been something that she has thought about. Good is a Cree lawyer and writer and a member of the Saskatchewan based Red Pheasant Cree Nation. Both her mother, her grandmother, and cousins are residential school survivors and her novel is a fictional account based on their real-life experiences. She started writing the manuscript for her debut in the mid-1990s, but it was not until much later that she got serious with it. Michelle became a lawyer and was a representative of some survivors of a residential school when she realized that the story of residential schools needed to be told. She had realized that Canada and Canadians do not understand the impact of these schools on individuals that had to endure them. In her novel, she intended to communicate the facts of the number of learners that were forced to go to these schools and the manner of coercion that was employed by the authorities.