Events
Stephanie offers stand-up comedy performances, event and pow-wow hosting, and interactive Indigenous-comedy workshops for communities, organizations, and youth.
Through storytelling, humour, and teaching, she creates uplifting spaces that blend laughter, culture, and connection.
Stephanie Pangowish
Indigenous comedian presenting culturally-relevant humour, stories & social commentary
Hosting/MCing for events:
Serves as a pow-wow MC and event host, especially within Indigenous communities.
Workshops & community sessions:
Leads workshops (e.g., “Indigenous Comedy Workshops” for youth programs, team meetings, PD sessions) focusing on public speaking, stage presence, improv and Indigenous-themed humour.
Cultural/educational talks:
Gives talks on Indigenous humour, resilience and cultural identity (e.g., a talk titled “Resilience Through Indigenous Humour”).
Custom sessions and community-specific programming:
Individually offers custom shows, MCing + events, and workshops for First Nations, Indigenous-led orgs, etc. separate from her comedy duo.
Hosting Events
Stephanie Pangowish is an Anishinaabekwe comedian, powwow MC, and founder of The Deadly Aunties, known for turning every stage into a mix of cackling laughter, cultural pride, and real-talk healing. A sought-after host and emcee, Stephanie has led major community and cultural events across Turtle Island, including Pow wows in Mississauga First Nation, Garden River, Georgina Island and M’Chigeeng powwows.
She’s been highlighted on APTN’s Pow Wow Chow, Pride programming at the Art Gallery of Ontario, national storytelling concerts, and tech and education conferences.
On top of her stand-up comedy and touring with The Deadly Aunties, Stephanie is regularly invited to MC / Host community gatherings, festivals, galas, and conferences where organizers want laughter without losing the depth of Indigenous stories and teachings. Whether she’s opening a powwow, guiding a full-day program, or keeping a conference on track, Stephanie brings humour, clarity, and big Auntie energy that makes people feel welcomed, respected, and ready to listen.
Ancestors in My Corner:
Sobriety, Ceremony, and the Auntie I’m Becoming
Stephanie Pangowish – Anishinaabekwe Comedian, Cultural Storyteller, and Founder of The Deadly Aunties
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This keynote is a deeply cultural, emotionally grounded, and humour-filled journey through sobriety as an act of reclamation. Stephanie shares how choosing sobriety helped her reconnect with her ancestors, honour her teachings, and step into the Auntie she was always meant to become. Blending real-life vulnerability with Indigenous humour, she speaks about the messy, beautiful process of healing while navigating community expectations, identity, and generational cycles.
Humour Is Our Superpower
Vibrant, culturally grounded keynote where Stephanie Pangowish explores how Indigenous humour has always been a tool for survival, connection, resistance, and healing. Blending comedy with heartfelt storytelling, she breaks down how laughter carries teachings, eases heavy truths, and brings people together in ways that language alone cannot.
Stephanie shares real experiences from community life, powwow trails, and her own healing journey. Showing how humour becomes medicine when we’re navigating grief, trauma, identity, and growth. This keynote highlights that laughter is not something Indigenous people turn to; it’s something we come from, a long line of witty aunties, teasing uncles, trickster stories, and ancestors who survived the hardest things with unmatched resilience and joy.
Audiences leave inspired, uplifted, and reminded that humour isn’t just entertainment. It’s cultural strength, emotional intelligence, and one of our most powerful tools for carrying our stories into the next generations.
After this keynote, audiences will leave with:
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An understanding of Indigenous humour as cultural strength, not just entertainment
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Tools to use humour as a coping strategy for stress, grief, burnout, or emotional overwhelm
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A renewed appreciation for community-based laughter and why it keeps us connected
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Insight into the role of humour in decolonization and reclaiming our stories
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Practical ways to bring more healing humour into daily life
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A deeper sense of belonging, joy, and cultural pride
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Permission to laugh again — even in heavy season
Ideal Audiences:
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Community gatherings
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Wellness and mental health events
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Indigenous youth programs
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Conferences and leadership events
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Educational institutions
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Women’s gatherings and cultural spaces
Breaking Cycles, Building Futures:
Chasing Dreams as an Indigenous Woman
A powerful and culturally grounded keynote where Stephanie Pangowish shares what it truly means to chase big dreams as an Indigenous woman navigating barriers, expectations, identity, and intergenerational healing. Blending humour, storytelling, and lived experience, she explores how growing up with limited resources, heavy histories, and societal stereotypes didn’t stop her spirit — it sharpened her resilience.
Stephanie takes audiences through the real journey of choosing yourself, breaking cycles that were inherited through survival, and creating a future rooted in culture, pride, and possibility. She speaks about navigating fear, self-doubt, racism, fatphobia, judgment, and the internal battles that come from trying to succeed in systems not designed for Indigenous brilliance.
This keynote celebrates Indigenous ambition — and shows that dreaming is not selfish or unrealistic; it’s revolutionary. Powerful. Sacred. And needed for the next seven generations.
Audiences leave inspired, empowered, and reminded that their dreams are valid, their voice matters, and their ancestors have already paved the way.
Book Stephanie
Stephanie incorporates her comedic perspective on Indigenous business, life, pow wows and everything in between, while engaging her audience with some Indigenous knowledge creating a room full of laughter, even on the driest of subjects.
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​Contact Stephanie to have her at your next event - use the Book Now button or the contact form below to connect.
