M'iqmaq Elder Albert Marshall

Albert Marshall is an Elder of the Mi’kmaw Nation of Unama’ki (Cape Breton Island), Nova Scotia. He is the ‘designated voice’ on environmental issues for the Mi’kmaw Elders, a fluent speaker of the Mi’kmaw language, and a passionate advocate of Mi’kmaq culture, healing, and reconciliation. In 2009 Albert and his wife Murdena were awarded honorary doctorates from Cape Breton University for their efforts promoting and preserving Mi’kmaw culture and language. Albert is a proponent of cross-cultural understanding and Etuaptmumk: Two-Eyed Seeing – the idea that combining multiple cultural perspectives will result in clearer focus and better comprehension. He believes that Two-Eyed Seeing is the requisite guiding principle in collaborative/transdisciplinary/transcultural work and integrative science. As collaborative developers and stewards of the Integrative Science program at Cape Breton University, Elders Albert and Murdena spent the better part of two decades working with students, faculty, and researchers encouraging Etuaptmumk awareness.

Albert Marshall has no actual or potential conflict of interest, financial relationship/arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.