Lana Whiskeyjack
Keynote Speaker | Edmonton, Alberta
Multidisciplinary Artist
Educator | Author
Lana Whiskeyjack Expertise Indigenous, Gender Equality, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Personal Growth, Personal Leadership, Peak Performance, Women's Leadership and Resilience & Adversity.
About Lana Whiskeyjack
Lana Whiskeyjack is a nehiyaw Indigiologist, author, and award winning researcher from Saddle Lake Cree Nation. She is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta. Her work spans Indigenous knowledge systems, cultural revitalization, creative practices, and spirit-centered, community-led research. Lana Whiskeyjack explores language reclamation, gender and sexual diversity, and rites of passage through visual storytelling, academic research, and experiential learning. Her work promotes nehiyawêwin (Cree language), art as ceremony, and Indigenous approaches to menopause, healing, and leadership.
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LANA WHISKEYJACK BIOGRAPHY
Lana Whiskeyjack is a nehiyaw scholartist (scholar and artist), author, and researcher from Saddle Lake Cree Nation. Lana Whiskeyjack is recognized for her collaborative creative works in the fields of Indigenous knowledge, cultural revitalization, and spirit-centred community-based research, which explores gender and sexual diversity through cultural land-based experiential learning and arts-based practices. She is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender studies, Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta, Treaty 6 Territory, Canada.
Lana Whiskeyjack is an accomplished visual storyteller known for her work in the fields of sexual health, Indigenous knowledge, arts-based practices, cultural revitalization and decolonization. She is a member of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation, and her work often focuses on the intersection of Indigenous culture, western discourses and academic research. Whiskeyjack’s scholarship includes significant contributions to understanding and integrating Indigenous perspectives into Western frameworks.
Whiskeyjack received her doctorate degree at the University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills (Blue Quills University), a former Indian Residential School where two generations of her family attended. She is a co-founder of okimaw kihew mekwanak, formerly known as Indigenous Parents and Friends of Lesbian and Gays, the first in Canada. Her community-based research explores language reclamation, gender and sexuality diversity, and rites of passages. She also created a menopause support group, called “laughing beavers”, to reconnect to iskwewewin (womanhood) teachings, governance and leadership. She is featured in a documentary about confronting and transcending historical trauma through her arts-based practice titled, “Lana Gets Her Talk” (2017).
In addition to her academic pursuits, Whiskeyjack is involved in various community-based projects that aim to strengthen and celebrate nehiyaw culture, nehiyawewin (Cree language), as well as gender and sexual diversity. The intention of her work is to help restore balance between worldviews, languages and disciplines through collaboration with Indigenous communities and local communities to promote cultural knowledge and practices through both traditional and innovative approaches.
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Lana Whiskeyjack Edmonton, Alberta, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.
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