About Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair

Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair is Anishinaabe (St. Peter’s / Little Peguis) and Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba. He is an award-winning writer, editor, and activist who won the 2018 Canadian Columnist of the Year at the National Newspaper Awards for his biweekly columns in the Winnipeg Free Press. He also won Peace Educator of the Year from Georgetown University’s Peace and Justice Studies Association. He is the co-editor of the award-winning Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water (2011), Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World through Stories (2013) and The Winter We Danced: The Past, the Future and the Idle No More Movement (2014).