Kyle Napier

Biography

Kyle Napier is Dene/nêhiyaw Métis from Northwest Territory Métis Nation. He is a sessional instructor at the University of Victoria, and an assistant professor with MacEwan University. He also develops language resources, conducts research, provides consultation and collaboratively designs media. He is a doctoral student at the University of Alberta in Educational Policy Studies—Indigenous Peoples Education, and a graduate student at Osgoode Hall School of Law in Intellectual Property. He remains passionate about Indigenous language reclamation, and is a learner of the Indigenous languages of his ancestry—which include both Dene Dedlıne Yatı and sakâw-nêhiyawêwin.