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John (Jack) Payette is a storyteller and educator of the Odawa Nation, from the Unceded Territories of Wikwemikoong on Manitoulin Island. He is of the Crane Clan, and his spirit name is Wabishkii Mashkode Bizhiiki Niini, White Buffalo Man. He grew up in Sault Ste Marie and now lives in Orillia, Ontario, where he does interpretive work and storytelling for the Muskoka Discovery Centre's Indigenous museum, Misko-Aki: The Confluence of Cultures, in Gravenhurst. He holds a B.Ed. in Native Studies from Brock University and retired in 2013. He self-published his first book, NITAM: The First, on a holistic approach to reconciliation and healing, and is completing its sequel, The Way of the Grackle.