Career
Highway studied dance at the Toronto Dance Theatre, Denmark"s Tukak Theatre, and at the Native Canadian Centre in Toronto. René Highway helped to create the role of Nanabush in his brother"s play The Rez Sisters (1986), and was the choreographer for Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing (1989). He died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome-related causes in 1990.
Native Earth Performing Arts started the René Highway Foundation in his memory.