Paula Sherman is an Algonquin writer, activist and educator. She is of Omàmìwinini (Algonquin) heritage and a Family Head on Ka-Pishkawandemin, the traditional governing council for the

Ardoch Algonquin First Nation Ardoch Algonquin is a Indian Register, non-status Algonquin people, Algonquin (Anishinaabe) community that is located around the Madawaska River (Ontario), Madawaska, Mississippi River (Ontario), Mississippi and Rideau River, Rideau drainage basi ...

. She is also a professor of Indigenous Studies at

Trent University Trent University is a public liberal arts university in Peterborough, Ontario, with a satellite campus in Oshawa, which serves the Regional Municipality of Durham. Trent is known for its Oxbridge college system and small class sizes.

, in Peterborough, Ontario. Her recent book entitled ''Dishonour of the Crown: The Ontario Resource Regime in the Valley of the Kiji Sibi'' chronicles the Ardoch community's struggle to prevent uranium prospecting on their traditional lands and is published by Arbeiter Ring Publishing, Winnipeg, MB. She is also a contributor to ''Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence and Protection of Indigenous Nations'', a collection of essays writing by emerging Indigenous activists and academics edited by Mississauga academic Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

References

Bibliography

* ''Dishonour of the Crown: The Ontario Resource Regime in the Valley of the Kiji Sibi'', 2008, Arbeiter Ring Publishing, Winnipeg, MB.

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20081222171609/http://www.arbeiterring.com/new/dishonour.html *http://arbeiterring.com/books/detail/lighting-the-eighth-fire/ *https://web.archive.org/web/20131010015022/http://www.trentu.ca/academic/nativestudies/faculty.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20081222200210/http://www.aafna.ca/family_council.html *http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/1754 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sherman, Paula 20th-century births First Nations activists Living people Algonquin people Academic staff of Trent University First Nations women writers 21st-century First Nations writers 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian indigenous women academics First Nations academics