She has done fieldwork among the Inuit, Gitksan, Ahtna, and Tanana peoples of Canada and Alaska.
She was a student of the anthropologist Frederica de Laguna, with whom she later did fieldwork in Alaska in 1968.
Her 2005 book, Le rêve et la forêt: histoires de chamanes nabesna (The Dream and the Forest), published by Laval University Press, was nominated for the 2006 Governor General's Award for French non-fiction.
She is also director of the Canadian Centre for Inter-Culture Research and Training and has written extensively on North American world views and shamanism.
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