Janice (Kahehti:io) Longboat, C.M.
Six Nations Reserve, Ontario
For her efforts to preserve and disseminate knowledge of Indigenous medicine and culture.
Janice (Kahehti:io) Longboat is a Mohawk Elder and guardian of traditional Aboriginal practices. A natural health practitioner, she founded the Earth Healing Herb Garden & Retreat Centre where her teaching of holistic indigenous well-being practices benefited thousands of survivors of residential schools and colonization. An early proponent of the restoration of Aboriginal identity as a means of healing, she has shared her knowledge locally, nationally and internationally. She was also recently appointed as an overseeing Elder of the inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.