Dr. Priscilla Settee is a member of Cumberland House Swampy Cree First Nations and a Professor of Indigenous Studies where she has taught courses on Indigenous Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Social Economies and Indigenous Women. Settee is currently the Acting Vice Dean Indigenous for the College of Arts and Science. In the past she served as Adjunct Professor for the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba where she served graduate students on Indigenous Food Sovereignty. She has won recognition nationally and internationally for her work on Indigenous knowledge systems that spans several continents including North, Central and South America, Africa, India, Asia and the Pacific. Settee was awarded a Global Citizen’s award by Saskatchewan Council for International Co-operation and was twice nominated for a teaching excellence award by her students. In 2012 Settee received the University of Saskatchewan’s Provost award for Teaching Excellence in Aboriginal Education. In 2013 she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee award for contributions to Canada. She was awarded the Queens Platinum Jubilee Medal for Education in 2022-23.
Dr. Settee is the author of several books Pimatisiwin, Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems(2013) that looks at global Indigenous Knowledge Systems and The Strength of Women, Ahkameyimohk(2011) that examines the role of Indigenous women’s stories in establishing truth, reconciliation and social change. Dr. Settee’s latest co-edited book is called Indigenous Food Systems Concepts, Cases and Conversation(2020). She has a new book contract for this year with Canadian Scholarly Press on the topic of Global Indigenous Food Systems and Planetary Health. Her other research includes gang exiting Indigenous youth, Indigenous social economies, trafficked women and children, climate change impact of Indigenous Knowledge systems. She is a founding member of the City Park community garden. Settee serves on the Seed Change Canada board, is a past David Suzuki Fellow (2019-20) and a Fellow with the US based NDN Collective(2021-22). Dr. Settee was a key figure for a Saskatchewan based research team that secured The Rockefeller Foundation Food Vision Finalist Prize called Kwayeskastasowin Wakohtawin .