{"id":1639,"date":"2020-07-28T18:25:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T18:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.cohds.com\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:43:19","slug":"wahehshon-shiann-whitebean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wahehshon-shiann-whitebean\/","title":{"rendered":"Wah\u00e9hshon Shiann Whitebean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kaegh92q-0f247445f537c7f21cfa55dd5360a60f\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-kaegh92q-0f247445f537c7f21cfa55dd5360a60f .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kaegh92q-0f247445f537c7f21cfa55dd5360a60f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock member_tagline'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"p1\">Affili\u00e9e professeure<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0\">\n.flex_column.av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0 av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kaegkhpa-ef01e89ba0b031fa65c9c49642500cbd\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kaegkhpa-ef01e89ba0b031fa65c9c49642500cbd img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kaegkhpa-ef01e89ba0b031fa65c9c49642500cbd .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kaegkhpa-ef01e89ba0b031fa65c9c49642500cbd av-styling-no-styling avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-26418 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-26418 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wahehshon-Whitebean-July-2025-03-small-225x300.jpg\" alt='' title='Wahe\u0301hshon Whitebean July 2025 03 (small)'  height=\"300\" width=\"225\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wahehshon-Whitebean-July-2025-03-small-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wahehshon-Whitebean-July-2025-03-small-773x1030.jpg 773w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wahehshon-Whitebean-July-2025-03-small-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wahehshon-Whitebean-July-2025-03-small-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wahehshon-Whitebean-July-2025-03-small-1125x1500.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wahehshon-Whitebean-July-2025-03-small-529x705.jpg 529w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wahehshon-Whitebean-July-2025-03-small.jpg 1158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56\">\n.flex_column.av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kaegh92q-1-c95a931dacecea67cdbed5c7ffe6c2db '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Dr. Wah\u00e9hshon Shiann Whitebean is a Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka (Mohawk) scholar of the Wolf Clan from the community of Kahnaw\u00e0:ke. She earned her PhD in Educational Studies from McGill University in 2025, where her dissertation explored the legacy and intergenerational impacts of Indian Day Schools in Kahnaw\u00e0:ke using community-based oral history and Indigenous methodologies. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at the Faculty of Arts Institute for Indigenous Research &amp; Knowledge at McGill University.<\/p>\n<p>A mother, educator, and community advocate, Dr. Whitebean brings over a decade of experience in research, education, and policy development. As Education Research Coordinator and Chair of the Education Research Committee at the Kahnaw\u00e0:ke Education Center, she co-wrote and co-launched the creation of the community\u2019s first education research policy and ethics framework. Her work centers Indigenous voices and supports collective healing, knowledge resurgence, and community-defined goals.<\/p>\n<p>Deeply committed to language revitalization, Dr. Whitebean has worked closely with Elders, language advocates, and community members in Kahnaw\u00e0:ke to support and protect Kanien\u2019k\u00e9ha (the Mohawk language). Her research and advocacy emphasize the role of language in cultural identity, community strength, and Indigenous research ethics. She has actively contributed to initiatives that integrate language learning with culturally grounded curriculum and oral history practices.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Whitebean received numerous scholarships, awards, and accolades over the years including a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar, a Tomlinson Fellowship, and a recipient of the COHDS Award of Distinction in Oral History. She holds an M.A. in Individualized Studies and a B.A. in First Peoples Studies from Concordia University, where she was the university\u2019s first Indigenous valedictorian.<\/p>\n<p>Through her scholarship and community work, Dr. Whitebean continues to advance Indigenous-led education, ethical research, and language resurgence rooted in Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka ways of knowing and being, which are culturally transmitted through oral history and storytelling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,90,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affilie-e-s","category-affilie-e-s-chercheur-euse-s","category-communaute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26663,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/26663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}