Patty Krawec – Her Story Speaks

Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe woman, activist, and former social worker from Lac Seul First Nation who resides in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Krawec has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and cohosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast. Through traditional storytelling, she writes and speaks about how Anishinaabe thought informs faith and social justice practices. She is a strong believer in the power of collective organizing. Krawec actively supports Palestinian liberation, viewing it through an Indigenous lens of anti-colonialism, advocating for collective liberation and connecting Palestinian struggles with Indigenous sovereignty around the globe. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and she is the author of Becoming Kin (2022) and Bad Indians Book Club (2025).

You can find more of her writing on her blog “A Thousand Worlds” (thousandworlds.ca). You can support her non-profit, Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation, which challenges settlers to pay their rent for living on Indigenous land and then disburses those funds to Indigenous people at: payyourrent.ca