Niigaan Sinclair is Anishinaabe from Peguis First Nation and a professor at the University of Manitoba, where he holds the Faculty of Arts Professorship in Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics in the Department of Indigenous Studies. He is the award-winning author of the national bestseller Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre (McClelland & Stewart, 2024) and was co-editor of Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water (Highwater Press), – the book voted by Manitobans in the “On the Same Page” competition as the top book to read in 2012. Niigaan is a multiple nominee of Canadian columnist of the year (winning in 2018) and is a featured member of the Friday “Power Panel” on CBC’s Power & Politics who was recently named to the “Power List” by Maclean’s magazine as one of the most influential individuals in Canada. He is also a former secondary school teacher who won the 2019 Peace Educator of the Year from the Peace and Justice Studies Association based at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
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