"Marianne Ignace is known for her innovative and transdisciplinary approaches to Indigenous language revitalization and documentation, the study of oral traditions and ethnoecology, and what they can teach us if we interweave our understandings of traditional knowledges with western science. As director of the Indigenous Languages Program at Simon Fraser University, she has built multiple successful research and educational partnerships in and with Indigenous communities throughout northwestern North America." - Royal Society of Canada: Class of 2020.