Niigaan Sinclair

Columnist

Niigaan Sinclair is Anishinaabe from Peguis First Nation and a professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba.

He’s been a columnist for the Free Press since 2018, and has twice been named Canadian Columnist of the Year at the National Newspaper Awards, in 2018 and 2025.

His book Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre is a national bestseller and won the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction.

In 2022, Maclean’s magazine named him one of the most influential people in Canada.