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Denise K. Lajimodiere,Ed.D.

Denise is a Michif professor, scholar, poet, artist and dancer, and currently is an Assistant

Professor, at the NDSU School of Education. She was born on the TurtleMountain Chippewa Cree reservation where she is an enrolled band member.

From the mid 1970s to 2004 she has worked as a middle school teacher,Assistant Principal and Principal in the Turtle Mountain school system atBelcourt, North Dakota. She was Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota in

2005 and in 1997 was installed in the Making a Difference Honor Roll Award,

by Heidi Heitkamp, North Dakota Attorney General. A long time jingle dress

dancer, she enjoys traveling to Pow Wows throughout the US.

Denise completed her doctorate in education in 2006 at the University of North Dakota,Grand Forks, ND, her dissertation was Ogichida Ikwe: Native Females and Their Paths

to Leadership. She completed her M.Ed. at the same university in 1996.

Denise is one of the many artists who have beaded moccasin vamps for the Walking

with Our Sisters project, a Commemorative Art Installation for the Missing and

Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada and the USA. This large collaborative art pieceis currently on exhibit in Edmonton, Alberta and is being made available to the public

through selected galleries and locations.

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Edited and Compiled by Lawrence Barkwell

Coordinator of Metis Heritage and History ResearchLouis Riel Institute