Marie Battiste

Special Advisor to the Provost, Vice President (Academic) and to

Dr. Marie Battiste is L’nu Mi’kmaq, a member of the Potlotek First Nation, and a member of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs in Maine. After 28 years teaching at University of Saskatchewan, she retired as Professor Emerita and has returned to service in her home territory as Special Advisor to the Vice President Academic, Provost and to the Dean of Unama’ki College on Decolonizing the Academy at Cape Breton University. A graduate of Harvard and Stanford Universities, her passion, research and scholarly work in decolonizing education, cognitive justice through balancing diverse knowledge systems and languages, and protecting Indigenous knowledges have earned her five honorary degrees, an appointment as Officer to the Order of Canada, an elected Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada, five honorary degrees internationally at universities, and multiple awards for her scholarly work and advocacy in Indigenous decolonial education. She has published widely, notably Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spiri