Priscilla Settee is a

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activist for Native rights, women's rights and environmental rights living in

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. She is the director of the Indigenous People's program at the

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Biography

Settee is from north

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. She attended

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and then became a teacher in Saskatchewan. She works with Aboriginal

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and she is a professor at the

. Her specialty in Native studies is researching Aboriginal ways of understanding the world in the sciences and engineering. As a professor, she stresses real-world learning, assigning community service to her students. Settee was on the board of the Oskayak High School, the only Aboriginal high school in

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. from 1996 to 2013. As an activist, she has worked to set up a shelter for women facing

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. In 1996, she was the only Canadian woman on the board of the

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(IWN). In 2013, she was awarded the

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for her work and contributions to Canada. In 2011, she published ''The Strength of Women: Âhkamêyimowak''. The book's collection of stories were called by ''

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'' to be "both inspiring and through-provoking" on the topic of women in Native communities. The word ''Âhkamêyimowak,'' roughly means "persistence" and the "strength for women to carry on in the face of extreme adversity," writes Settee. She has also published ''Pimatisiwin: Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems'' (2013).

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