He holds a PhD in semiology (Université du Québec à Montréal); his dissertation focused on the translation of philosopher Jacques Derrida in America. He is also a part-time law student at University of Ottawa and is working on a dissertation on the translational relationships between Indigenous oral tradition and the Canadian colonial law. He teaches translation in social sciences and the humanities and Aboriginal research and methodologies. He is trying to learn Kanien’kéha; Akwiratékha’ was once his teacher.