Kulchyski, Peter

Peter Kulchyski grew up in northern Manitoba and was one of the few non-Aboriginal students to attend a government-run residential high school. He has a PhD from York University and is a senior Canadian scholars in Native Studies. He is the co-editor of "In the Words of the Elders: Aboriginal Cultures in Transition "and co-author of "Tammarniitt [Mistakes]: Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic", which won the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize of the American Society for Ethnohistory. He is the head of the department of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba.