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Lorena Fontaine

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ProfessorDepartment of Indigenous StudiesUniversity of Manitoba

Lorena Fontaine

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Department of Indigenous Studies

Faculty of Arts

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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5 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (1 SSHRC, 1 CIHR), most recently in 2019.

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Research

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Indigenous languages Legacy of the Residential School Linguicide

Latest papers

CHAPTER A-2 Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities to Language Transmission: Implementing Article 14 of UNDRIP
University of Ottawa Press eBooks · 2025 · first author
Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities to Language Transmission:
Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press eBooks · 2025 · first author
Our Languages Are Sacred:
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks · 2023 · first author

All 10 publications

Latest funding

The Canadian Reconciliation Barometer: Understanding, Measuring Progress Toward, and Creating Interventions to Promote Reconciliation in Canada
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$111,773
Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$996,134
Language is Identity and Well-Being
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$10,000

All 9 grants and awards

10 publications.

CHAPTER A-2 Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities to Language Transmission: Implementing Article 14 of UNDRIP

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine

University of Ottawa Press eBooks2025First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1515/9780776641911-005

Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities to Language Transmission:

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine

Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press eBooks2025First author

DOI: 10.2307/jj.36075940.7

Our Languages Are Sacred:

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine

McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks20231 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.2307/jj.11955033.13

9 Our Languages Are Sacred: Indigenous Language Rights in Canada

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine

McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks2023First author

DOI: 10.1515/9781928096832-011

Special Issue: The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, Adam Müller

Genocide Studies International2022First author

DOI: 10.3138/gsi-2025-1602

Everyday Stories on Extraordinary Times:

Jaime Cidro, Mary Jane Logan Mccallum, Wendy McNab, Roberta Stout, Lorena Sekwan Fontaine

Demeter Press eBooks2021Senior author

DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1h45mcj.45

Listening to First Nations women’ expressions of heart health: mite achimowin digital storytelling study

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, Sarah Dougherty Wood, Lisa Forbes, Annette S. H. Schultz

International Journal of Circumpolar Health201928 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1080/22423982.2019.1630233 PMID: 31199204

Our Languages are Sacred: Finding Constitutional Space for Aboriginal Language Rights

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine

Mspace (University of Manitoba)20182 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

Redress for linguicide: residential schools and assimilation in Canada

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine

British Journal of Canadian Studies201727 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.3828/bjcs.2017.11

UNDRIP Implementation: Braiding International, Domestic and Indigenous Laws

Brenda L. Gunn, Cheryl Knockwood, Gordon Christie, James Youngblood Henderson, Jeffery G. Hewitt, John Borrows, Joshua Ben David Nichols, Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, Risa Schwartz, Sarah Morales

20179 citations

The Canadian Reconciliation Barometer: Understanding, Measuring Progress Toward, and Creating Interventions to Promote Reconciliation in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Starzyk, Katherine B.

Keywords: reconciliation; Canada; psychometrics; Indigenous peoples; social psychology; public polling

$111,773

Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Grants

Keywords: poverty; community economic development; community based participatory research; Indigenous research; urban studies; sociology; Northern communities; economics; collaborative research; community based organization

$996,134

Language is Identity and Well-Being

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Fontaine, Lorena

Keywords: First Nations; language revitalization; well-being; trauma-informed methods

$10,000

Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Partnership Grants

$793,151

The Prairie Indigenous Knowledge Exchange Network (PIKE-Net)

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Training Grant: Indigenous Mentorship Network Program - Manitoba

Principal investigators: Lavoie, Josée G; Boyer, Yvonne M; Cidro, Jaime; Clark, Wayne; Craft, Aimée E; Driedger, S. Michelle; Lavallee, Barry; Young, Doris

Keywords: Determinants Of Health; Health; Indigenous; Mentorship; Well-Being

$997,682

The Prairie Indigenous Knowledge Exchange Network (PIKE-Net)

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Training Grant: Indigenous Mentorship Network Program - LOI

Principal investigators: Lavoie, Josée G; Boyer, Yvonne M; Craft, Aimée E; Driedger, S. Michelle; Lavallee, Barry; McCallum, Mary Jane L; Young, Doris

Keywords: First Nations; Health Research; Health Sciences; Mentorship; Metis And Inuit; Two-Eyed Seeing

$24,999

Mite Achimowin (Heart Talk) First Nations Women in Winnipeg and Opaskwayak Cree Nations Expressions of Heart Health

Nominated PICIHR2015Operating Grant - PA: Aboriginal Ways of Knowing and Two-eyed Seeing (Bridge)

Principal investigators: Fontaine, Lorena S; Schultz, Annette S

Keywords: Community Based; Decolonizing And Historical Knowledge; Digital Storytelling; First Nations Women'S Health; Heart Health; Indigenous Knowledge

$100,000

Diversities of resilience: understanding the strategies for success used by underrepresented students in Canadian universities

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: King, Alyson E.

Keywords: students; success strategies; post-secondary; underserved; equity; comparative

$135,794

Partnering for change: community based solutions for Aboriginal and inner-city poverty

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011Partnership Grants

Keywords: Aboriginal research; urban studies; poverty; community economic development; community based participatory research; sociology; northern communities; economics; collaborative research; longitudinal analysis; community based organizations

$2,500,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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Lorena Fontaine

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

CHAPTER A-2 Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities to Language Transmission: Implementing Article 14 of UNDRIP

Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities to Language Transmission:

Our Languages Are Sacred:

9 Our Languages Are Sacred: Indigenous Language Rights in Canada

Special Issue: The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages

Everyday Stories on Extraordinary Times:

Listening to First Nations women’ expressions of heart health: mite achimowin digital storytelling study

Our Languages are Sacred: Finding Constitutional Space for Aboriginal Language Rights

Redress for linguicide: residential schools and assimilation in Canada

UNDRIP Implementation: Braiding International, Domestic and Indigenous Laws

The Canadian Reconciliation Barometer: Understanding, Measuring Progress Toward, and Creating Interventions to Promote Reconciliation in Canada

Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities

Language is Identity and Well-Being

Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities

The Prairie Indigenous Knowledge Exchange Network (PIKE-Net)

The Prairie Indigenous Knowledge Exchange Network (PIKE-Net)

Mite Achimowin (Heart Talk) First Nations Women in Winnipeg and Opaskwayak Cree Nations Expressions of Heart Health

Diversities of resilience: understanding the strategies for success used by underrepresented students in Canadian universities

Partnering for change: community based solutions for Aboriginal and inner-city poverty

Frequent collaborators

Annette Schultz

Jaime Cidro

Oonagh Fitzgerald

John Borrows

Sarah Morales

Brenda Gunn

Jeffery Hewitt