Mailhot's background is Nlaka'pamux, part of the indigenous First Nations people of the Interior Salish language group in southern British Columbia. She was in foster care periodically and eventually aged out of the system. The role of Wahzinak was portrayed by Sara Ramirez in the musical. Mailhot's mother had a letter-writing relationship with Salvador Agron, and shared the correspondence with musician Paul Simon, who used them for his Broadway musical, The Capeman. Her father had been incarcerated and was an alcoholic who molested Mailhot when she was young, and was often violent. Her mother, Wahzinak, was a healer, social worker, poet, and radical activist, and her father, Ken Mailhot, was an artist. Mailhot grew up in Seabird Island, British Columbia, on the Seabird Island First Nation reservation. Terese Marie Mailhot (born 15 June 1983) is a First Nation Canadian writer, journalist, memoirist, and teacher. First Nation Canadian writer, journalist, memoirist, and teacher
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