Full Name
Dominique Rankin & Marie-Josée Tardif
Speaker Bio
T8aminik (Dominique) Rankin
After a successful career in politics and serving as Grand Chief of the Algonquin Nation, Elder T8aminik Rankin turned his focus to his role as a spiritual leader. He has since devoted his efforts to teaching and healing, as well as preserving and promoting Indigenous cultures, both nationally and internationally.
A survivor of the painful era of Indian Residential Schools, he gives a vibrant testimony about forgiveness and reconciliation in the book They called us Savages. Co-Chair of the World Council of Religions for Peace (an organization linked to the United Nations), Elder T8aminik is a member of the Order of Canada and a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. Senator for the Native Friendship Centers Movement in Canada, he is also founding president of Kina8at-Together and of the Dominique Rankin Foundation. But to many, he is simply Grandfather Dominique, a man known for his boundless energy, his irrepressible sense of humour, and the broad message of peace and harmony he shares across Canada and the world.
Dominique Rankin and Marie-Josée Tardif are the authors of They Called Us Savages: A Hereditary Chief’s Quest for Truth and Harmony Paperback – Nov. 1 2020.
BIO: Marie-Josée Tardif
Marie-Josée Tardif spent the first fifteen years of her professional career making a name for herself as a journalist and news anchor in Quebec, Saskatchewan, and the UK. Her personal work and journalistic curiosity soon led her to explore our human potential, which in turn led her to meet and interview visionaries such as Eckhart Tolle, Don Miguel Ruiz and the Dalai Lama. In 2007, her existence shifted when the elders of the Algonquin nation offered her to become a Sacred Pipe carrier, which meant she would have to devote her entire life to the study of the traditional medicine and culture of this ancient people. In addition to sitting on several international committees, including the Global Women of Faith Network, the woman now known as grandmother Marie-Josée is the co-founder of the Dominique Rankin Foundation and the non-profit organization Kina8at-Together, two organizations dedicated to the preservation and transmission of indigenous traditions.
After a successful career in politics and serving as Grand Chief of the Algonquin Nation, Elder T8aminik Rankin turned his focus to his role as a spiritual leader. He has since devoted his efforts to teaching and healing, as well as preserving and promoting Indigenous cultures, both nationally and internationally.
A survivor of the painful era of Indian Residential Schools, he gives a vibrant testimony about forgiveness and reconciliation in the book They called us Savages. Co-Chair of the World Council of Religions for Peace (an organization linked to the United Nations), Elder T8aminik is a member of the Order of Canada and a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. Senator for the Native Friendship Centers Movement in Canada, he is also founding president of Kina8at-Together and of the Dominique Rankin Foundation. But to many, he is simply Grandfather Dominique, a man known for his boundless energy, his irrepressible sense of humour, and the broad message of peace and harmony he shares across Canada and the world.
Dominique Rankin and Marie-Josée Tardif are the authors of They Called Us Savages: A Hereditary Chief’s Quest for Truth and Harmony Paperback – Nov. 1 2020.
BIO: Marie-Josée Tardif
Marie-Josée Tardif spent the first fifteen years of her professional career making a name for herself as a journalist and news anchor in Quebec, Saskatchewan, and the UK. Her personal work and journalistic curiosity soon led her to explore our human potential, which in turn led her to meet and interview visionaries such as Eckhart Tolle, Don Miguel Ruiz and the Dalai Lama. In 2007, her existence shifted when the elders of the Algonquin nation offered her to become a Sacred Pipe carrier, which meant she would have to devote her entire life to the study of the traditional medicine and culture of this ancient people. In addition to sitting on several international committees, including the Global Women of Faith Network, the woman now known as grandmother Marie-Josée is the co-founder of the Dominique Rankin Foundation and the non-profit organization Kina8at-Together, two organizations dedicated to the preservation and transmission of indigenous traditions.
