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Georges E. Sioui was born in Wendaké (Village-des-Hurons), Quebec, in 1948 and received both his MA (1987) and his PhD (1991) in History from Laval University. Prior to returning to do graduate studies in 1982, Sioui was Officer of Literature and Communications and Editor of the Tawow magazine for the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. He was responsible for the creation and implementation of governmental policies in matters of preservation and development of Aboriginal cultures in Canada. He was also Assistant-Director General and Corporate Secretary for the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay, Chisasibi, Quebec. From 1992 to 1997, Dr. Sioui was Associate Professor of Indian Studies and Dean of Academics of the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College at the University of Regina. From January 1999 to December 2000, he was President of the Institute of Indigenous Government in Vancouver. He is now the Coordinator of the Aboriginal Studies Program at the University of Ottawa.
Georges Sioui’s projects and employment have consistently focused on the Amerindian, Aboriginal and Inuit communities. His writings on Indigenous philosophy, history and education have appeared in several journals, magazines and books continent-wide and abroad. A volume comprised of thirty essays and presentations by Georges Sioui, both in Canada and abroad, is in preparation for publication at the Univeristy of Ottawa Press. In May 1990, Dr. Sioui and his four brothers obtained a landmark victory in the Supreme Court of Canada (the “Sioui Case”) over territorial and traditional land use rights.
Georges Sioui is polyglot, an international speaker, a poet, an essayist and a songwriter.