Taiaiake Alfred

Gerald Taiaiake Alfred is an author, educator and activist, born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1964 and raised in the community of Kahnawà:ke. Alfred is an internationally recognized Kanien’kehá:ka scholar.

Early life and education

Alfred grew up in the Mohawk community of Kahnawà:ke and graduated from Loyola High School in Montreal. After high school, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years until 1985.[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

Alfred was a professor of political science at Concordia University and later the founding director of the University of Victoria’s 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 2006. In 2019 he resigned from the University of Victoria in response to a conflict with the university’s administration over pedagogical methods and criticism of his approach to decolonizing education.[2][1]

In 2019, Alfred took leadership of the Kahnawà:ke Governance Project and began working as an independent consultant offering strategic advice to First Nations, notably in the area of the cultural aspect of environmental impact assessment.[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

  • 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

  1. 1 2 3 "Indigenous Governance - Faculty". web.uvic.ca. Archived from the original on 2013-01-17. Retrieved 2026-05-17.
  2. ↑ "Founder of UVic's Indigenous governance program resigns". 10 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  3. ↑ "KAHNAWÀ:KE GOVERNANCE PROJECT Who We Are". 30 March 2021.
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