Jerry Fontaine
Community Leader, Scholar, and Advisor
Jerry Fontaine is listed as Community Leader, Scholar, and Advisor. Jerry is scheduled to speak at OLA Super Conference 2027 on 28 January 2027.
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About
makwa ogimaa (Dr. Jerry Fontaine, PhD), makwa doodem, Sagkeeng onjibaa, Treaty One aki. His work as a community leader, scholar, and advisor has been guided by Anishinaabe i-zhi-chi-gay-win zhigo kayn-dah-so-win (Ways of doing and knowing) and i-nah-ko-ni-ge-wi-nan (Laws). As elected Chief of Sagkeeng First Nation from 1988 to 1998, he led the development of Tepwewin, Sagkeeng’s constitutional declaration and the foundation for its Law-Making Assembly, Process Law, and Conservation Law. In 1995, he brought a private prosecution against the Pine Falls Pulp and Paper Mill under the Water Rights Act, one of the few such prosecutions by a First Nation Chief in Manitoba’s history. He has since served as Senior Advisor to the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations and provided senior advisory leadership at Hydro One on partnerships with Anishinabe and Métis communities. makwa ogimaa has held faculty appointments at the University of Winnipeg and Algoma University and established the