About

She:kon tahnon teyethinonweratons. Hello and welcome. Dawn yontiaats. My name is Dawn. Konkwehonwe Kanienkehaka. I am an original being who is Mohawk. Toronto Nikiteron. I live in Toronto. Wa’skarewake itskote niwaketohroten. I sit with the Bear Clan. Kateriwaweienstha. I am a (life-long) learner.

With three decades working with and for Indigenous communities, organizations, initiatives and campaigns, Dawn has multiple education and Native Studies degrees. She has experience in Indigenous education & training, health/medicine/tobacco, governance, women and the arts.

Dawn has sat as an esteemed member of the UNESCO arts and education roundtable; in interfaith communities for the North American Interfaith Network and the Parliament of World Religions, as well as Women of Spirit and Faith (USA), and is a co-founder of Women and Wisdom Canada.

As a former National Director for the National Centre for First Nations Governance, and the National Chair for the INAC - Assembly of First Nations Working Group on Post Secondary Education, Dawn has worked on grassroots, local, regional, college, university, and national levels creating curriculum, adapting content and delivery across the nation,  as well as to share her work in other countries such as Germany, Italy, the USA, and Australia.

Dawn is an award-winning diversity community organizer - she won the International Day to End Racism and Discrimination Award at the University of Toronto. She is a facilitator, cultural advisor, consultant and curriculum writer for the Institute for Change Leaders with Olivia Chow. She is the Founder of Dawn T Maracle Consulting, CEO of skyROOTS Indigenous Education Institute, and Executive Director of HOPES (Healing Our People through Education, Sports and Social justice) Indigenous Training Network not-for-profit. She volunteers on the Indigenous Advisory Council for Toronto Public Library and cares deeply about the arts and Indigenous I.D.E.A. inclusion as a Board Director for TO LIVE.