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Gerald Taiaiake Alfred

is an author, educator and activist who is committed to Indigenous peoples' dignity, freedom and nationhood.

Taiaiake was born in Montreal in 1964 and was raised on the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. Except for service in the US Marine Corps during the 1980s, he lived in Kahnawake until 1996, when he moved to the west coast.

Educated at Concordia and Cornell, Taiaiake has lectured at universities and colleges in Canada, the United States, England and Australia, and has served as an advisor on land and governance issues for his own and many other Indigenous governments and organizations. ...Read Entire Bio

Tetewarihwáthe'te [Kanienkeha] a Mohawk word meaning "Let's all make the matters brighter and more clear."

Speaking

2008

Concordia University
Montreal, October 2nd & 3rd
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture

University of British Columbia
Vancouver, October 23rd
First Nations Studies Department

McMaster University
Hamilton, November 25th to 27th
Department of English and Cultural Studies
Indigenous Studies Program

2009

Vancouver Island University
Nanaimo, BC, March 13th
First Nations Studies Program

Arizona State University
Phoenix, March 23rd
American Indian Studies Program, Department of English, and the Heard Museum
Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Indigenous Lecture on Land, Culture, and Community

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, May 21st to 23rd
Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference

2010

University of Hawai’i - Manoa
Honolulu, January 24th to February 7th
Department of Political Science

Gerald Taiaiake Alfred

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