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

Early life and education[edit]

Alfred grew up in Kahnawake and graduated from Loyola High School in Montreal. After high school, he served in the Marine Corps for three years until 1984.^[1] He then received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Concordia University, an Master of Arts and Ph.D. from Cornell University.^[1]

Career[edit]

Alfred was the founding director of the 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 2019 he resigned from the University of Victoria in the wake of an investigation of creating a toxic learning environment.^[2][1]

In 2019, Alfred joined the Kahnawà:ke governance project as project manager.^[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[edit]

• 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.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Personal web site of Taiaiake Alfred