Tanya Kappo

Tanya Kappo (Cree) Her father was Harold Cardinal, author of The Red Paper. She graduated the University of Manitoba with a J.D. in 2012.

Activism and career Kappo is one of the four women who co-founded the Idle No More movement in November 2012. Kappo described the impetus for founding the movement as "the legislation facing First Nations, primarily Bill C-45".

Kappo was hired as the community relations for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in early 2017. She resigned from the inquiry in June 2017. In November, 2017, Kappo emceed the symposium, Indigenous Climate Action: An Indigenous led climate change initiative. In 2020 she was working as a lawyer in Alberta.

Electoral politics In 2006, Kappo ran for the Liberal Party of Canada in the federal election in the riding of Peace River (Alberta). She lost to Conservative candidate Chris Warkentin.

Personal life Kappo has three children and lives in Edmonton.