Gerald Taiaiake Alfred is an author, educator and activist, born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1964 and raised in the community of Kahnawake.
Alfred is an internationally recognized Kanien’kehá:ka professor.
Alfred grew up in Kahnawake and graduated from Loyola High School in Montreal.
In 2019 he resigned from the University of Victoria in the wake of an investigation of creating a toxic learning environment.
[3] In 2023, he released his fourth book, titled Its All About the Land: Collected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous Resurgence, published by the University of Toronto Press.