Student Affiliate
Wahéhshon (she/her) is a Wolf Clan member of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation at Kahnawà:ke. She is an Indigenous community scholar, educator, writer, and activist. Wahéhshon recently completed doctoral research on Indian Day Schools in Kahnawà:ke (2025) in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. She is presently an instructor in the Indigenous Studies program at McGill University. She holds an MA from the Individualized program and BA in First Peoples Studies from Concordia University and served as the first Indigenous Valedictorian in 2017. Wahéhshon primarily engages in research centering on Indigenous Storywork and oral history/tradition. Her doctoral research examines Indian Day Schools as sites of acculturation and assimilation, to understand impacts of Indian Day Schools from the perspective of former students and to contextualize prevailing attitudes and obstacles to present-day Indigenous language and culture revitalization. Wahéhshon’s research centralizes Kanien’kehá:ka life stories about navigating historic and multigenerational trauma while demonstrating identity reclamation, healing, and resilience.
Website: shewalksabout.com
