Priscilla Settee is a Cree activist for Native rights, women's rights and environmental rights living in Canada. She is the director of the Indigenous People's program at the University of Saskatchewan.[1]
Settee is from north Saskatchewan.[2] She attended Trent University and then became a teacher in Saskatchewan.[2] She works with Aboriginal gang members and she is a professor at the University of Saskatchewan.[3] Her specialty in Native studies is researching Aboriginal ways of understanding the world in the fields of sciences and engineering.[2] As a professor, she stresses real-world learning, assigning community service to her students.[4] Settee was on the board of the Oskayak High School, the only Aboriginal high school in Saskatoon. from 1996 to 2013.[5]
As an activist, she has worked to set up a shelter for women facing domestic violence in Prince Albert.[2] In 1996, she was the only Canadian woman on the board of the Indigenous Women's Network (IWN).[2] In 2013, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for her work and contributions to Canada.[5]
In 2011, she published The Strength of Women: Âhkamêyimowak. The book's collection of stories were called by Windspeaker to be "both inspiring and through-provoking" on the topic of women in Native communities.[6] The word Âhkamêyimowak, roughly means "persistence" and the "strength for women to carry on in the face of extreme adversity," writes Settee.[7] She has also published Pimatisiwin: Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems (2013).[5]