{"id":25708,"date":"2026-03-25T13:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/?p=25708"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:52:29","slug":"award-of-distinction-in-oral-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/award-of-distinction-in-oral-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Award of Distinction in Oral History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1elxl-b72babf4858e5795568ec5dbf4e0127c\">\n.flex_column.av-1elxl-b72babf4858e5795568ec5dbf4e0127c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1elxl-b72babf4858e5795568ec5dbf4e0127c av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_three_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1elxl-a8c501240a5b25f22485ac3905a1b946\">\n.flex_column.av-1elxl-a8c501240a5b25f22485ac3905a1b946{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1elxl-a8c501240a5b25f22485ac3905a1b946 av_three_fourth  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kbqqmldh-18d5278f934ed77ef9cea5260b68c02b\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kbqqmldh-18d5278f934ed77ef9cea5260b68c02b img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kbqqmldh-18d5278f934ed77ef9cea5260b68c02b .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kbqqmldh-18d5278f934ed77ef9cea5260b68c02b av-styling-no-styling avia-align-left  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '   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-25706 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-25706 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC00085-1030x579.jpg\" alt='' title='DSC00085'  height=\"579\" width=\"1030\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC00085-1030x579.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC00085-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC00085-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC00085-705x396.jpg 705w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DSC00085.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kbihb0gk-78d3301f98f2f60c00fafc455aba9186 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>We are delighted to announce that this year\u2019s Award of Distinction in Oral History has been awarded to Dr. Wah\u00e9hshon Shiann Whitebean.<\/p>\n<p>An emerging Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka (Mohawk) scholar of the Wolf Clan from the community of Kahnaw\u00e0:ke, Dr. Whitebean\u2019s work is grounded in Indigenous education, oral history, and decolonizing research. She is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at McGill University\u2019s Faculty of Arts Institute for Indigenous Research &amp; Knowledge and earned her PhD in Educational Studies from McGill University in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Whitebean\u2019s award-winning dissertation offers a powerful and deeply grounded exploration of the history and lasting impacts of Indian Day Schools (1868\u20131988) in Kahnaw\u00e0:ke. Centering 22 oral history interviews with Kahnawa\u2019kehr\u00f3:non who attended or were closely connected to the day school system, her work documents the wide-ranging harms experienced (mental, psychological, spiritual, physical, and sexual) while also illuminating pathways of resilience, resurgence, and healing.<\/p>\n<p>Through a careful weaving of community voices and archival research, Dr. Whitebean examines how colonial schooling disrupted language, culture, and identity, and how community members continue to reclaim and \u201cre-story\u201d their experiences through Indigenous knowledge systems. Her work not only advances scholarship on Indian Day Schools but also bridges academic inquiry and community healing, grounded in the powerful principle that our stories are medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The committee was especially moved by Dr. Whitebean\u2019s rigorous and thoughtful engagement with ethical frameworks, her community- and Indigenous-centered research approach, and her commitment to supporting Kahnawa\u2019kehr\u00f3:non in reclaiming their histories. Her dissertation stands as an important contribution to the field of oral history and a meaningful act of community-centered scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>We warmly congratulate Dr. Whitebean on this well-deserved recognition.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25711,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708\/revisions\/25711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}