Indigenous Issues

Jackson Pind is a mixed Settler-Anishinaabe Historian of Indigenous education who focuses on the history of Indian Day Schools in Ontario. He is currently an assistant professor of Indigenous Methodologies at the Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies at Trent University. He was also an editor on Spirit of the Grassroots People: Seeking Justice for Indigenous Survivors of Canada's Colonial Education System (MQUP, October 2020).

Dr. Dawn Lavell Harvard, Ph.D., is a proud member of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, on Manitoulin Island, the first Aboriginal Trudeau Scholar, and has worked to advance the rights of Aboriginal women as the President of the Ontario Native Women's Association since 2003.

After serving as Vice-president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada for three years, Dawn was elected National President at the 41st Annual General Assembly, July 11, 2015 in Montreal, Quebec.