Aboriginal Governance & Globalization Symposium
Speakers
Ms. Dawn Maracle
Ms. Maracle is a Mohawk from Tyendinaga
Mohawk Territory
in Southern Ontario and is the new Director of
Professional Development at the National Centre for First Nations Governance
(NCFNG). She presently resides in Ottawa where
she is pursuing her Doctoral degree in Education from OISE/University of Toronto about
Haudenosaunee relationships with tobacco.
Formerly
the national First Nations Co-Chair of the Post Secondary Education Working
Group, Ms. Maracle has been both a student in Native studies and Education as
well as an Adjunct Professor at a number of colleges and universities across Ontario to help support
her education costs. Further, she has been a member of the Ontario Aboriginal
Institutes’ Consortium, the National Association of Indigenous Institutes of
Higher Learning, and the Toronto Storytellers’ School.
Ms.
Maracle has published numerous articles, essays, commentaries and short stories
in a variety of books, newspapers and journals in Canada, the US, Germany and
Italy and will soon complete her first book of Native Science Fiction after
graduating with her Doctor of Education.
In 2005 Ms. Maracle served on UNESCO’s Arts and Education Committee Roundtable in Ottawa; both as a Native Artist and Educator. Her lecture/conference tour repertoire includes most provinces in Canada as well as in the United States, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Australia. Topics have included: Native education in Canada, anti-racist, multicultural (Native) education, health of Native people in Canada, Native women in Canada, Iroquoian governance, Aboriginal people and products in the media, and reflexive/community-based research with Native people, to name a few.
< Back to Aboriginal Governance & Globalization Symposium Speakers