Julian Brave NoiseCat
Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker, among other publications. He was named to the TIME100 Next list in 2021 and has been recognized with numerous awards, including multiple National Native Media Awards and Canadian National Magazine Awards. He lives on Kitsilano Indian Reserve No. 6 (Vancouver).
Writers & Books
Award History
2026 - Finalist
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
forWe Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning
Jury Citation
“Julian Brave NoiseCat’s We Survived the Night enters the foray of nonfiction informed by the ancestral stories of his epistemologies. In bold, sweeping stories that coalesce temporalities and oralities into a singular throughline, We Survived the Night details the aftermath of residential and boarding schools while never succumbing fully to the expectation of unparalleled pain often called for from Indigenous memoirs on Turtle Island. Alongside his investigations into historical and contemporary colonial legacies, NoiseCat foregrounds joy, lyricism, and Sécwepemc coyote stories to detail futurities for and of survivors and architects of Indigenous tomorrows.”—2026 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction (Katherine Ashenburg, Debra Thompson, Joshua Whitehead)Works Recognized by WT