Highway will present the Riddell Lecture, "Let Us Compare Mythologies," on Sunday, March 26 at 3 p.m. in the University Theatre, Riddell Centre. On Monday, March 27, he presents "Education = Understanding = Freedom" in the Theatre from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Monday lecture is sponsored by the President’s Advisory Committee for the Prevention of Racial Harassment. There is no admission charge for either lecture and everyone is welcome.

Highway, a Cree raised on a reserve in Brochet, Manitoba, is best known for his plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing. Both were nominated for the Governor-General’s Literary Award and won the Dora Mavor Moore Award. In January, his musical Rose opened in Toronto, and last year he published his first novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen.

He is currently president of the board of Native Earth, Toronto’s only professional native theatre company, and he is working on his second novel.

Highway was educated at the Guy Indian Residential School and Churchill High School in Manitoba, and has an honours degree in music and a BA in English from the University of Western Ontario. He has studied as a concert pianist and has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Winnipeg, Brandon and Western Ontario. In 1994, he became a Member of the Order of Canada.