Indigenous Faculty at OISE
EILEEN ANTONE (Elder)
Eileen Antone is part of the Onieda Nation and is the Aboriginal Studies, Program Director, U of T & Adult Education and Community Development Program at OISE.MARTIN CANNON
Martin Cannon is an Assistant Professor Sociology and Equity Studies at OISEJEAN-PAUL RESTOULE
Jean-Paul Restoule is Anishinaabe and French, and a member of the Dokis First Nation. He is Assistant Professor of Aboriginal Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His research has included Aboriginal identity development in urban areas; access to post-secondary education for Aboriginal people; HIV prevention strategies for Aboriginal youth; and the application of indigenous knowledge in academic and urban settings.SUZANNE STEWART
Dr. Suzanne L. Stewart is a member of the Yellowknife Dene Nation. She is a certified Psychologist and currently works as a professor of Aboriginal healing in Counselling Psychology at OISE - University of Toronto. Research interests include cultural mental health and healing, Indigenous research methodologies, and Indigenous post secondary success. She also works in as a mental health consultant and in private practice as an individual/couples counsellor.
Indigenous Faculty and Staff at UofTGRAFTON ANTONE (Elder)
Grafton Antone is from the Oneida of the Thames First Nation. He serves as Urban Native Outreach Ministry in Toronto, as well as an elder-in-residence at First Nations House, University of Toronto. He teaches the Oneida language.TRACEY KING
Tracey King is the First Nations House Financial CounsellorALANA JOHNS
Alana Johns is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at U of T and has been involved with work on the Inuktitut language for many years. She does research on grammatical properties of Inuktitut and dialect variation. She has also taught linguistics and language teaching courses to Inuit studying to be language teachers.DANIEL HEATH JUSTICE
Daniel Heath Justice is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and Associate Professor of Aboriginal literatures at the University of Toronto. His research and writing interests focus on issues of Indigenous nationhood, resistance, and decolonization. His Indigenous fantasy trilogy, The Way of Thorn and Thunder trilogy, is available from Kegedonce Press. A literary history of the Cherokee Nation, OUR FIRE SURVIVES THE STORM: NATIONHOOD, REMOVAL, AND REGENERATION IN THE CHEROKEE
LITERARY TRADITION, was published by University of Minnesota Press in fall 2005. While his appointment is in the Department of English, he teaches a course in Oral Tradition for the Aboriginal Studies Program.LEE MARACLE
Lee Maracle is a Sto:Loh nation, grandmother of four, mother of four was born in North Vancouver, BC and now resides in Innisfil, Ontario. Her works include: the novels, Ravensong, Bobbi Lee, Sundogs, short story collection, Sojourner's Truth, poetry collection, Bentbox, and non-fiction work I Am Woman. She is Co-editor of My Home As I Remember and Telling It: Women and Language Across Cultures, editor of a number of poetry works, Gatherings journals and has published in dozens of anthologies in Canada and America. Ms. Maracle is both an award winning author and teacher. She currently is Mentor for Aboriginal Students at University of Toronto where she also is a teacher and the Traditional Cultural Director for the Indigenous Theatre School, where she is a part-time cultural instructor.
DEBORAH MCGREGOR
Deborah McCregor is an Assistant Professor in Aboriginal Studies and Geography at U of T. She is an Anishnabe from Wiigwaskingaa (Whitefish River First Nation, Birch Island, Ontario). She is an educator and trainer at both the university and community levels. Her focus is on Indigenous knowledge in relation to the environment. She is also an environmental consultant for various Ontario First Nations organizations.
ALEX MCKAY
Alex McKay is a Lecturer with a full-time appointment in Aboriginal Studies at U of T, and has been with the program since its inception. He is Anishnabe from northern Ontario. He is in charge of the Ojibwa language program, and he teaches courses in Language and Culture, Aboriginal Teaching and Legends, and the Indian Act. He has recently been involved in a research project in which he has collected autobiographies from elder women in the northern Ontario community that he comes from. These are being transcribed, and will be used as material in the Ojibwa class in the future.
AMANDA RITCHIE
Amanda Ritchie instructs ABS350Y Aboriginal Health Systems at U of T. Her academic background in Biology, Anthropology, Museum Studies and Epidemiology brings a diverse perspective to the course. Amanda is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Toronto in partnership with Cancer Care Ontario's Aboriginal Cancer Care Unit. Ms. Ritchie also works at the University of Toronto/McMaster University Indigenous Health Research Development Program.
CYNTHIA WESLEY-ESQUIMAUX
Cynthia Wesley-Esqimaux instructs ABS201Y, the Introduction to Aboriginal Studies at U of T. She is from Georgina Island First Nation where she also lives and works. She worked in the land claims, self-government and healing and wellness field for 14 years before going back to graduate school.