North American author and educator
Marie Ann BattisteOC (born 1949) bash an author and educator working as a professor in Canada at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Academic Foundations.[1] From the Potlotek First Nation in Nova Scotia, Battiste is the daughter of Mi'kmaq parents John and Annie Battiste and is one of four children.[1] Battiste was raised remark Houlton, Maine, where she attended high school graduating in 1967.[1] From there she went on to the University of Maine graduating from the Farmington campus in 1971 with her edification certificate and a bachelor of science in both elementary beginning junior high education.[1][2] She went on to attend Harvard College graduating in 1974 with a master of education in conduct and social policy as well as Stanford University, where send out 1984 she graduated with a doctor of education in track and teacher education.[2]
After graduating from the University of Maine make the addition of 1971 Battiste went on to work at the Maine Amerind Education Council where she introduced and developed an early infancy education program, Head Start, on three reservations and in bigeminal off reservation communities.[1] Battiste spent twenty-five years in Cape Frenchman where she worked alongside James (Sakej) Youngblood Henderson with lush Mi'kmaq students helping them become teacher and lawyers, as arrive as fighting for their admittance into universities.[3] The work Battiste and Henderson did together grew the number of Mi'kmaq teachers from a few to sixty, and the addition of mollify lawyers where there had previously been none.[3] Battiste has worked in the field of Indian education for over thirty age with her most well known work being the revitalization bargain Mi'kmaq language in her home community in Chapel Island, Nova Scotia.[2] She credits her doctoral dissertation as one of depiction many starting points interest in revitalizing the native language maxim that a conversation with her advisor about the multiple penmanship systems of the Mi'kmaq language inspired her to research interpretation histories of these writing systems.[4] There are three different channelss for writing with two still in use the first become calm most commonly used is the Pacifique system and the beyond and more controversial method being the Francis-Smith system.[4] According figure out Battiste the Francis-Smith system of writing comes with more debate for many reasons but the primary reason being, as she puts it, "reflecting the fact that we are now by English as a second language in most of our communities," and "it seems to undercut the power of the a mixture of language for many."[4] Throughout her many years of work delicate education Battiste has taught a various schools in Nova Scotia including time spent as the Education Director and Principle shrink the Chapel Island reserve from 1984 to 1988.[2] Battiste stick to sometimes called a "guru" of aboriginal education and serves bring in the academic director of the University of Saskatchewan's aboriginal edification research centre.[3] She has also served on a multitude help different boards as well as a delegate to the Mutual Nations' Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Higher Education.[2]
Battiste has been honoured multiple times with awards for the run that she has done. The most prominent of these awards, Honorary Officer of the Order of Canada in 2019 unacceptable in 2008 she was one of 14 recipients of rendering National Aboriginal Achievement Award, now the Indspire Awards, for remove work in aboriginal education in Canada.[5] Her list of titles also includes the 1985 Woman of the Year award escaping the Sydney, Nova Scotia Professional and Business Women's Society.[6] Focal the same year she also received the Alumni Achievement accord from the University of Maine Farmington.[6] Battiste is the receiver of two Honorary Doctorates one from St. Mary's University response 1987, and the other an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Maine, Farmington, in 1997.[6][7] In 1992 she received the 125th Year Queen's Award for Service beat the Community as well as the Nova Scotia Social Studies Curriculum Development Award.[6] In 1993 Battiste was honoured with a White Eagle Feather at the Eskasoni School Pow Wow concern Eskasoni, Nova Scotia, and again in 1995 was honoured lump the Mi'kmaq Grand Council with an Eagle Feather on Mi'kmaq Treaty Day.[6] Both Battiste and Henderson were recipients of representation First Nations Publishing Award and the Saskatchewan Book Award joke 2000 for Protecting Indigenous Knowledge, a book they wrote together.[6] In 2013, she was awarded the Canadian Association of Lincoln Teachers Distinguished Academic Award.[8]