Dr. Daniel N. Paul, O.N.S.

Dr. Daniel N. Paul, O.N.S., Halifax

He is a passionate writer who gives a voice to his people by revealing a past that the standard histories have chosen to ignore. He is a business manager, consultant, counsellor, historian, author, journalist, reviewer, lecturer, social commentator, and justice of the peace. A former executive director of the Confederacy of Mainland Micmacs, he is a member of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission's Mi'kmaw Advisory Committee and of the Advisory Council for Dalhousie University's Law Program for Indigenous Blacks and Mi'kmaq, and of the Nova Scotia Police Commission. He has been recognized by l'Université Sainte-Anne with an honorary Doctor of Letters degree, by the City of Halifax with a millennium award, and by the Municipality of Clare with honourary citizenship. By bringing new understanding and perspectives to the past, he seeks to teach all people the damage racism can do.