Laura Forsythe

Laura Forsythe (she/they) is a Michif Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Winnipeg. With seven co-edited collections and as co-founding editor of Pawaatamihk: Journal of Metis Thinkers and the Canadian Journal of Indigenous Studies, Forsythe has helped lift up Indigenous scholars’ works for over a decade. She is a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation, the official democratic and self-governing political representation of the Red River Métis. Her kinship ties include the Huppe, Ward, Berard, Morin, Lavallee, and Cyr lines. Her ancestors worked for the Northwest and Hudson’s Bay Companies, fought in the Victory of Frog Plain, and owned Lot 31, the site of a contemporary Métis space called Pakan Town.