Ojiig Corbiere

Dr. Alan Ojiig Corbiere, Bne doodem (Ruffed Grouse clan), is an Anishinaabe from M'Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island. He was educated on the reserve and then attended the University of Toronto for a Bachelor of Science. He earned his Master's of Environmental Studies from York University, where he focused on Anishinaabe narrative and language revitalization. He then served as the Executive Director, curator and historian at the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (OCF) in M'Chigeeng from 2006-2011. He served as the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) Revitalization Program Coordinator at Lakeview School, M'Chigeeng First Nation from 2011 to 2017, where he and his co-workers developed a culturally based second language program that focused on using Anishinaabe stories to teach language. He defended his PhD thesis in 2019 and is now an Assistant Professor in the History Department at York University. He holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous History of North America.