James Makokis is a two-spirit Family physician who specializes in treating transgender patients from Cree communities. Makokis was born in 1981/82 at Saddle Lake Cree Nation, Alberta and wanted to be a doctor since he was young. He mastered in health sciences from the University of Toronto (2006), and graduated from the University of Ottawa’s […]| The Scientific Detective
Aimée Craft is an Anishinaabe-Métis lawyer from Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba. She is the founding director of research at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and the director of research as the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Craft graduated from the University of Victoria ad began her work […]| The Scientific Detective
Nel Wieman is Canada’s first female Indigenous psychiatrist. Wieman was born in 1964 at Little Grand Rapids First Nation in Manitoba. She is a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. She was taken from her family and placed in foster homes until she was adopted by a Dutch family in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Wieman grew up […]| The Scientific Detective
Nadine Caron is the first Indigenous (Ojibway) woman general surgeon and the first Indigenous graduate of UBC’s medical school. Born in 1970, Caron excelled in academics and basketball. She attended Simon Fraser University for Kinesiology where she won awards such as the Shrum Gold Medal for being the top undergraduate student. She was again recognized […]| The Scientific Detective