Siku Allooloo
Siku Allooloo (born 1986) is an Inuk/Haitian Taíno writer, artist, facilitator and land-based educator from Denendeh ("the Land of the People"), Northwest Territories and Pond Inlet, Nunavut in Canada. Allooloo's works incorporates the legacies of resistance to settler colonialism, and revitalization of Indigenous communities. Through her writing, visual art, and activism, Allooloo fights against colonial violence on indigenous women. She won "Briarpatch" magazine's 2016 creative nonfiction contest with the piece titled "Living Death". Educational background. Siku Allooloo holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in anthropology and Indigenous studies from the University of Victoria . Her diverse background in cultural land-based programming, youth development, research, and solidarity serves as the foundation of her creativity. Activism. In 2013, Allooloo drafted principles for the Indigenous Nationhood movement. This website was a call for Aboriginal nations to move away from the Indian Act and towards autonomy from the Canadian government. She also participated in integrating the Idle No More movement into the North. In 2016, Allooloo assisted the international organization, Human Rights Watch's investigation about police abuse of indigenous women in Saskatchewan. In 2020, Allooloo participated in a demonstration of support for Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation in  Yukon. In late December 2019, a British Columbia judge signed off on an injunction that would prevent the Wet’suwet’en from protecting their land from the proposed Coastal GasLink Pipeline. Career. Her writing has been featured in "Briarpatch", "The Malahat Review", Nuit Blanche Toronto, "Canadian Art" and Surrey Art Gallery Presents, among other publications. She was faculty for the residency "The Space Between Us: Technology, collaboration, and the future" held at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Allooloo was also the artistic producer for "Bystander: Study Guide" by the Gwaandak Theatre in 2018. Group exhibitions and projects. Allooloo has collaborated  artistically with indigenous artists across Canada since 2014. Exhibitions and projects include: Publications. Allooloo's creative non-fiction and poetry pieces appear in several journals, magazines, news articles, and academic books.