Taiaiake Alfred
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Gerald Taiaiake Alfred is an author, educator and activist, born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1964 and raised in the community of Kahnawake. Alfred is an internationally recognized Kanien’kehá:ka professor.
Early life and education
[edit]Alfred grew up in Kahnawake and graduated from Loyola High School in Montreal. After high school, he served in the Marine Corps for three years until 1984.[1] He then received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Concordia University, a Master of Arts and Ph.D. from Cornell University.[1]
Career
[edit]Alfred was the founding director of the Indigenous Governance Program (serving from 1999 until 2015) and was awarded a Canada Research Chair 2003–2007, in addition to a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in education. In 2019 he resigned from the University of Victoria in the wake of an investigation of creating a toxic learning environment.[2][1]
In 2019, Alfred joined the Kahnawà:ke governance project as project manager.[3]
In 2023, he released his fourth book, titled Its All About the Land: Collected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous Resurgence, published by the University of Toronto Press.
Bibliography
[edit]- Heeding the Voices of our Ancestors : Kahnawake Mohawk Politics and the Rise of Native Nationalism, Oxford University Press (Canada), 1995.
- Peace, Power, Righteousness : an Indigenous manifesto, Oxford University Press (Canada), 1999.
- Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom, Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2005.
- Peace, Power, Righteousness : an Indigenous manifesto, 2nd Ed., Oxford University Press (Canada), 2009.
- It’s All about the Land: Collected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous Resurgence, University of Toronto Press, 2023.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Faculty Page Archived 2013-01-17 at the Wayback Machine of the Indigenous Governance Program, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria
- ^ "Founder of UVic's Indigenous governance program resigns". 10 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
- ^ "KAHNAWÀ:KE GOVERNANCE PROJECT Who We Are".
External links
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- Personal web site of Taiaiake Alfred
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