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Governance
Council Secretary
Adriauhna Faithful a library assistant manager from Frog Lake Fist Nation raised in Fishing Lake Metis Settlement. She has been working with the Frog Lake Public Library & Archives since November 2021. This journey has opened so many opportunities to reconnect to her roots with her culture, eagerness to learn the language and the history. She feels blessed to have this opportunity.
Samantha Dokis is an Anishinaabe Kwe scholar, lecturer, and researcher with extensive research experience concerning Indigenous cultural, philosophical, and political histories and contemporary experience. She has expertise regarding diversity and inclusivity, including Indigeneity, LGBQT+, and disability topics with which she has personal experience. She has also produced resources and lectures for heritage organizations, academic initiatives, and healthcare researchers and developed IT infrastructures for nonprofits. Samantha previously worked as the Community Outreach Coordinator with the Inclusiv Group and has recently joined the Respectful Terminology Platform Project's Indigenous Advisory Circle.
Samantha Dokis
Elder
Community: Culture & Heritage
Treasurer
Stacy Allison-Cassin is a Citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario with kinship connections to the Georgian Bay Métis community. An Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the LIS program at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, she engages in work and research related to Indigenous matters in libraries and the larger cultural heritage sector. With a deep interest in increasing access and visibility for non-textual materials and marginalized knowledge, Stacy is a passionate advocate for change in information structures and metadata systems within the library profession and across the wider GLAM sector. Stacy is on leave from her position as an Association Librarian at York University. Stacy is active in association work, as an advisor, and in community-focused work.
Member at Large
Anne Carr-Wiggin
Coordinator, Indigenous Initiatives, University of Alberta Library
Community: Library
Member at Large
Anne Carr-Wiggin is of Scottish and English heritage and came to what is now known as Canada as an adult. She currently lives in amiskwacîwâskahikan, in Treaty 6 and Métis territory. In 2006 she began working with First Nations college libraries in the region to develop the First Nations Information Connection, a shared Integrated Library System and related resources. Since then her role in Indigenous Initiatives at the University of Alberta Library has grown to include coordinating the Indigenous Internship, a program that funds tuition and employment for First Nations, Métis or Inuit MLIS students, and active participation in the library’s Decolonizing Description work, among other initiatives. She is Co-lead of the library’s Indigenous Initiatives Team, which brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous staff members to further the work of decolonizing and appropriately Indigenizing the library. She has served on the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries Indigenous Knowledge Standing Committee and the Canadian Federation of Library Associations Indigenous Matters Committee. As a visitor to these lands she is grateful for the welcome and learning she has received from Indigenous colleagues, students and friends.
In the decades of discussions that led to this Alliance, it became evident that the interests of a diverse group of knowledge practitioners determined that our Governance Model had to include the varied pedagogy of each field, while also embracing the cross Canadian Indigenous worldviews. All without becoming a Pan-Indian organization.
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The Executive consists of a Chair, Vice Chair, Past Chair, Treasurer, and Council Secretary. In order to ensure that the association represents Indigenous practitioners, members must identify as Indigenous (FNMI). Five communities were established to represent the fields of NIKLA. . Two Council seats are designated for any member who represents the organizational needs of our members. This is set by size and includes the two organization groups of Local Organizations, which are individual groups or services, and Institutional groups such as provincial/territorial, national or academic institutions. These At Large members need not be Indigenous, but must be appointed by an organization.