Author’s inner superhero shines in The Unbeatable Sonya Ballantyne – Anishinabek News
March 19, 2026
ROSEAU RIVER ANISHINABE FIRST NATION – Sonya Ballantyne is Superman and talks to kids about their own superpower and her new graphic novel, The Unbeatable Sonya Ballantyne.
Sonya knows good thoughts triumph.
Ballantyne is a writer and a filmmaker from Misipawistik First Nation. Misipawistik means rushing rapids, from time before the Manitoba Hydroelectric Dam. As a young child, she decided she was a descendant of a great people and was destined for big things, but had to grow up. Superman didn’t know his powers either when he was young, so that helped her put up with the unjust parts of her life sometimes, she says.
