Jill Oakes

Jill Oakes teaches in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba. With Rick Riewe, her husband, she wrote Our Boots: An Inuit Women's Art, as well as Spirit of Siberia: Traditional Native Life, Clothing, and Footwear which was published in association with the Bata Shoe Museum (Toronto). Her fields of interest include the ways that Native women improve their community's quality of life, manage resources, and pass on traditional knowledge.