Kyle Napier

Biography

Kyle Napier is Dene/nêhiyaw Métis from Northwest Territory Métis Nation. He is the co-chair of Native Land Digital, a sessional instructor at the University of Victoria, NorQuest College, Mount Royal University, and the University of Alberta, and an occasional guest instructor with Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. 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. 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.