Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde

Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde is a Haudenosaunee woman from Kahnawà:ke and a member of the Wolf Clan. She is currently enrolled as a PhD student in the Indigenous Governance program and holds the Audain Professorship in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Victoria. As a multidisciplinary artist and scholar, she engages in Indigenous arts, culture and governance theory and research with the consciousness of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy woven into the essence of her being.

As a descendant of those who once built palisades, raised longhouses, and pounded corn, she is not separate from these cosmologies and teachings—she is their living, embodied constellation. She carries forward matrilineal knowledge, cultural resilience, and land-based traditions that have sustained her people for generations. This lineage shapes both her academic research and her artistic practice.

She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria, and a Master’s degree in Indigenous Communities Counselling Psychology, also from UVic. Her interdisciplinary education informs an artistic practice that is embodied, relational, and deeply attentive to emotional, cultural, spiritual and land-based ways of knowing.

Her artistic practice focuses on Indigenous dance and theatre, land-based dramaturgy, embodiment, performance, collaborative process, and decolonial methodologies. Through these practices, she explores the somatics of sovereignty, restores relational understanding, and reimagines Indigenous ways of making through ethical, relational, and culturally grounded approaches. Her work draws upon Indigenous aesthetics shaped by Haudenosaunee epistemologies, engaging themes of identity, politics, healing, resurgence, renewal, social responsibility, and human rights.

She weaves culture, art, history, ceremony, healing, spirituality, breath, song, movement, human development and mindfulness into the tapestry of the creative process to support the re-visioning of Indigenous futurities of hope and beauty. Transcending the intergenerational soul wound through the impasse of the radical creative spirit is what she strives to offer in her work.