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A Holistic Framework for Aboriginal Policy Research
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Emily Faries
Dr Emily Jane Faries is of the Cree Nation and originates from the James Bay area. She received her graduate degrees from the University of Toronto, and is a professor at Laurentian University of Sudbury. Dr. Faries' expertise is in the area of Indigenous education and research. She is involved in many First Nations community-based initiatives.
Jo-Anne Fiske
Jo-Anne Fiske is a professor and co-coordinator of Women's Studies at the University of Lethbridge . She has worked extensively as a researcher on behalf of First Nations communities and has completed several collaborative research projects with First Nations scholars in the area of social justice and customary law, family organization, governance and community research training. She is the author with Betty Patrick of Cis Dideen Kat: When the Plumes Rise, the Way of the Lake Babine People. Her work appears in numerous journals including American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Atlantis, Ethnohistory and Feminist Studies.
Carolyn Kenny (Nang Jaada Sa-ets)
Carolyn Kenny is a professor of human development and Indigenous studies in the Antioch Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change in the Professions. She is also a senior researcher at the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research at the University of California Santa Barbara Her study, conducted with co-researchers Colleen Purdon and Haike Muller, North American Indian, Métis and Inuit Women Speak about Culture, Education, and Work was published by Status of Women Canada in 2002. In addition to her policy research, Professor Kenny studies music therapy and the role of the arts in the renewal of Indigenous societies. Her article, "Blue Wolf Says Goodbye for the Last Time," published in the American Behavior Scientist, documents her research and experiences in the arts with the Haida Nation. She was adopted by a Haida elder in 2000. Her birth mother was Choctaw.
Cora Voyageur
Dr Cora Voyageur is a sociology professor at the University of Calgary . Her research focusses on Aboriginal life in Canada that includes leadership, employment, women's issues and the media. She has written and published many articles and delivered research papers at conferences in Britain, the United States and across Canada . She has co-edited a book on the contributions of Aboriginal peoples to Canadian society. Her current research is on the experiences of women chiefs in Canada . She is a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations at Fort Chipewyan, Alberta .
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