Christina (Tina) Keeper, OM (born March 20, 1962 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is an Aboriginal activist, actress and former member of the Canadian House of Commons.
Keeper is best known for her role as RCMP officer Michelle Kenidi in the CBC Television series North of 60, about the fictional aboriginal community of Lynx River. She also hosted a relief concert for the 1997 Manitoba flood. In 1993, she starred in the Canada Award-winning short docudrama ...
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Christina (Tina) Keeper, OM (born March 20, 1962 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is an Aboriginal activist, actress and former member of the Canadian House of Commons.
Keeper is best known for her role as RCMP officer Michelle Kenidi in the CBC Television series North of 60, about the fictional aboriginal community of Lynx River. She also hosted a relief concert for the 1997 Manitoba flood. In 1993, she starred in the Canada Award-winning short docudrama For Angela, dramatizing Rhonda Gordon's response to racist taunting on a Winnipeg city bus.
The granddaughter of Olympic long distance runner Joe Keeper, Keeper was also married to the former Grand Chief of MKO, originally from Cross Lake Cree Nation. Her sister, Joy, is also active in the Manitoba arts and media industry.
Keeper is a member of the Norway House Cree Nation, and has been involved in a variety of social issues, such as suicide prevention and producing initiatives in public education to build bridges between the Aboriginal and...
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