Biographical Statement
Taiaiake Alfred is a Kahnawà:ke Mohawk philosopher, writer, and political strategist with more than three decades of experience in First Nations governance, politics and cultural restoration and environmental impact assessment. After a 25 year academic career during which he founded Concordia University’s Centre for Native Education and the University of Victoria’s Indigenous Governance Program, and originated and developed Indigenous Resurgence as an intellectual paradigm, he left academia to devote himself to working directly with his own and other Indigenous people at the community level to breathe life into ancestral visions of nationhood. Taiaiake holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and is the author of four books: Heeding the Voices of Our Ancestors and Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto from Oxford University Press, Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom, and It’s All about the Land: Collected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous Resurgence, from the University of Toronto Press.
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[…] their students to enhance this connection. In the short video “Practical Decolonization”, Taikaike Alfred, a professor of Indigenous governance at the University of Victoria, says that “the only way to […]