Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 7, 2015
• Invested on: February 12, 2016

For contributing to the development of Aboriginal health care in Canada as a nurse, researcher and advocate.

A Cree born and raised on the Kehewin First Nation in Alberta, Madeleine Dion Stout has played a major role in the development of Aboriginal health care and education. After working in the field for over a decade and becoming one of the first Aboriginal university-educated nurses, she joined the federal Department of Health and Welfare. As a special policy advisor to the Minister, she played a key role in initiatives such as the devolution of health powers to Indigenous communities in the late 1980s. Now the president of Dion Stout Reflections Inc., she adopts a Cree lens in her research, writing and lectures on First Nations health.