Kathleen E. Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe)
Kathleen Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe – Shining Day Woman) is Anishinaabe kwe who is a community helper, knowledge seeker, knowledge carrier, educator, re-searcher and writer. Absolon is a member of Flying Post First Nation Treaty 9 and is also a mother, Kokum and Aunty. She carries truth stories about both a rich cultural history and Canada’s colonial history. Her lifetime of work in generating decolonial stories and Indigenous education has been informed by her land-based philosophy. Absolon is a professor in the Indigenous Field of Study, Masters of Social Work Program in the Faculty of Social Work, Wilfred Laurier University. Over the last 35 years, her academic and cultural work has been in restoring, reclaiming, re-righting Indigenous history, knowledge, and cultural worldviews and making the invisible visible — decolonization. She is the author of Kaandossiwin How We Come to Know: Indigenous re-Search Methodologies, 2nd edition (Fernwood Publishing, 2022).
