Alexis Wawanoloath (born July 15, 1982) is a lawyer in Indigenous peoples' law and was

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politician. He was a member of

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for the riding of

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, representing the

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. He is a member of the

Abenaki The Abenaki ( Abenaki: ''Wαpánahki'') are Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States. They are an Algonquian-speaking people and part of the Wabanaki Confederacy. The Eastern Abenaki language was pred ...

First Nation. The son of Christine Sioui-Wawanoloath and Gaston Larouche and descendant of Gray Lock, he studied at the Cégep de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Wawanoloath worked as a technician in social work at the l'Or-et-des-Bois School Board, an educator at a child daycare centre and a host for the Centre polyvalent pour jeunes autochthones in Val-d'Or. He was the president of the youth aboriginal council and an administrator at the

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youth forum. Wawanoloath became the first aboriginal member ever elected to the National Assembly since Ludger Bastien, defeating Liberal incumbent Pierre Corbeil in the 2007 elections. He was named the PQ critic for youth by André Boisclair. He ran again in the 2008 election and was defeated by Corbeil. On December 1, 2013, he was elected as councillor in the Abenakis of Odanak council. He subsequently completed his law studies at the

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. In June 2021, after obtaining a Bachelor of Laws, a J.D., and completing Bar School, he became a lawyer specializing in the rights of Indigenous peoples at Neashish & Champoux. He is also a lecturer in Indigenous peoples' law at the Faculty of Law at

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. Wawanoloath is also interested in the world of communications; he is a contributor to

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Le Fil, to the Debaters of Noovo, and co-hosts the weekly radio show Kwé-Bonjour on Canal M.

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External links

PQ webpage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wawanoloath, Alexis 1982 births Living people Parti Québécois MNAs People from Val-d'Or Odanak people First Nations politicians Francophone Quebec people 21st-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec