Priscilla Settee

Priscilla Settee is a Cree activist for Native rights, women's rights and environmental rights living in Canada. She is the director of the Indigenous People's program at the University of Saskatchewan.

Biography Settee is from north Saskatchewan. She attended Trent University and then became a teacher in Saskatchewan. Her specialty in Native studies is researching Aboriginal ways of understanding the world in the fields of sciences and engineering. Settee was on the board of the Oskayak High School, the only Aboriginal high school in Saskatoon. from 1996 to 2013.

As an activist, she has worked to set up a shelter for women facing domestic violence in Prince Albert. The word Âhkamêyimowak, roughly means "persistence" and the "strength for women to carry on in the face of extreme adversity," writes Settee. She has also published Pimatisiwin: Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems (2013).