Lorena Sekwan Fontaine
Department Head of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba and a Cree and Anishinaabe scholar whose work focuses on Indigenous languages, the legacy of residential schools, and linguicide; co-editor of the special issue on erasure and revitalization of Indigenous cultures and languages.
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Mar 21, 2026 • 42min
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Adam Muller eds., "The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages" A Special Issue of Genocide Studies International" (Vol 16, No 2)
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, Cree and Anishinaabe scholar and head of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba, discusses language loss and revival. She outlines linguicide as a colonial strategy and explores legal limits and interdisciplinary blind spots. Conversation highlights links between language recovery, healing, and nation rebuilding, and calls for Indigenous-led research and renewed priorities for revitalization.
Mar 21, 2026 • 42min
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Adam Muller eds., "The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages" A Special Issue of Genocide Studies International" (Vol 16, No 2)
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, Department head of Indigenous Studies and Cree–Anishinaabe scholar, discusses language loss and revitalization. She outlines linguicide’s impacts on law, nationhood, and worldview. She covers legal limits, interdisciplinary gaps, trauma’s role in learning, and how revitalization links to sovereignty. Technology and ethical research approaches also come up.
