Cash Ahenakew
Professor Cash Ahenakew is a First Nations’ scholar whose research experience and interests focus on the areas of international indigenous studies in education, indigenous curriculum and pedagogy and indigenous health and well being. He has been a research associate in international research projects on global citizenship education, international indigenous networks, and critical intercultural education at the universities of Oulu (Finland) and Canterbury (Aotearoa/New Zealand). From 2006 to 2012 Cash lectured in the International Indigenous Studies program at the University of Calgary (Canada) on Aboriginal health & well-being; indigenous and Western methodology; and indigenous theory and practice. Cash’s doctoral dissertation, “The Effects of Historical Trauma, Community Capacity and Place of Residence on the Self-Reported Health of Canada’s Indigenous Population” interprets quantitative data through indigenous theories. Cash is Plains Cree and his family comes from Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation.