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Dr. Taiaiake Alfred, a faculty member in UVic's indigenous governance program, received a 2006 National Aboriginal Achievement Award during a ceremony in Vancouver on Jan. 27.
The gala evening was broadcast nation-wide the following evening on the Global and Aboriginal Peoples Television networks. Alfred, who is also the Canada Research Chair in Studies of Indigenous Peoples, was named in the education category, one of the award program's 14 categories.
Alfred is a graduate of Concordia University in Montreal and Cornell University in New York and served as an infantryman with the U.S. Marines prior to embarking on his academic career. A prolific author of hundreds of articles and three books on indigenous governance, he remains active in indigenous communities as an adviser and strategist to many First Nations governments and community organizations.
A reviewer described his most recent book, Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom, as rejecting "aboriginalism as a legalistic, integrating ideology that destroys individuals and communities, and argues instead for an anarcho-indigenist perspective that is non-capitalist, non-statist, pro-feminist, and based on a sustainable relation to nature."
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