Barbara Moktthewenkwe Wall

Barbara Moktthewenkwe Wall is an associate professor within the Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences program and the Indigenous Studies PhD program at Trent University. She is a mixed-ancestry Potawatomi woman of the Deer Clan, and an enrolled member of the federally recognized Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Shawnee, Oklahoma. An Indigenous scholar with strong ancestral and spiritual ties to the Great Lakes Basin, Barbara lives and works in Treaty 20 and the Williams Treaty territory, the traditional lands of the Michi Saagiig Anishinaabe in Ontario, Canada. Her personal and professional journey has taken her across several regions, including northern New York State, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and the San Francisco Bay Area. These diverse lands and waters continue to shape her scholarship, community engagement, and deep commitment to Indigenous language, culture, and land-based knowledge.