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Elder Elmer Ghostkeeper, ’80 BA, ’95 MA, ’23 LLD(Honorary)

Dr. Elmer Ghostkeeper was born to parents Adolphus and Elsie Ghostkeeper at the Paddle Prairie Métis Settlement in Alberta. He speaks fluent Michif. Elmer is a father, grandfather, teacher, philosopher, community leader, business person, knowledge keeper and scholar. As a member of the Métis Nation, Elmer has worked throughout his life to promote the rights of Métis peoples in Canada, including advocating for the inclusion of Métis peoples among the Aboriginal peoples of Canada in the Canadian Constitution.

Marilyn Dumont, ’90 BA

Metis poet, writer, and Professor Marilyn Dumont teaches for the faculties of Arts and Native Studies at the 91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø and is proud of Metis family lines from her Mother’s - Vaness/Dufresne families and her father’s - Boudreau/Dumont families. She was awarded the 2018 Lifetime Membership from the League of Canadian Poets for her contributions to poetry in Canada. In 2019, she received the 91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø Distinguished Alumni Award and the Alberta Lieutenant Governor’s Distinguished Artist Award, and in 2022 was awarded the Alberta Queen’s Platinum Jubilee medal for public service. Her four collections of poetry have won provincial or national awards: A Really Good Brown Girl (1996); green girl dreams Mountains (2001); that tongued belonging (2007); The Pemmican Eaters (2015). A fifth collection surrounding Indigenous history of Edmonton, called South Side of a Kinless River was published by Brick Books in 2024.

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