CRYSTAL GAIL FRASER (right) is Gwichyà Gwich’in (and of English-Scottish ancestry), originally from Inuvik, Northwest Territories. She holds a PhD in Canadian history and is an associate professor in history and Native studies at the University of Alberta. Crystal is a community-engaged scholar of Indian residential schooling histories and recently published the historical monograph By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, winner of the prestigious Canadian Historical Association’s Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize and the Clio Prize for the North.
