Ignatia Broker

Ignatia Broker
BornFebruary 14, 1919 (1919-02-14)
White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota
DiedJune 23, 1987(1987-06-23) (aged 68)
OccupationNovelist

Ignatia Broker (1919–1987) was an Ojibwe writer and community leader from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is best known for the novel Night Flying Woman, published in 1983, which tells the story of Broker's great-great-grandmother and her family's life before and after contact with white explorers. She was an enrolled member of the Ojibwe tribe and the Ottertail Pillager Band.

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