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In 2018, he won Canadian columnist of the year at the National Newspaper Awards for his bi-weekly columns in The Winnipeg Free Press and is a featured member of the Friday &#8220;Power Panel&#8221; on CBC&#8217;s Power &amp; Politics. A former secondary school teacher, he won the 2019 Peace Educator of the Year from the Peace and Justice Studies Association based at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keycon.org\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/niigaanwewidam-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keycon.org\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/niigaanwewidam-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.keycon.org\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/niigaanwewidam-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.keycon.org\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/niigaanwewidam-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.keycon.org\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/niigaanwewidam-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.keycon.org\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/niigaanwewidam.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niigaan Sinclair is Anishinaabe (St. Peter\u2019s\/Little Peguis) and a professor at the University of Manitoba, where he holds the Faculty of Arts Professorship in Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics and is currently Head of the Department of Indigenous Studies. 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