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Kahente Horn-Miller

Associate Professor (ON LEAVE)

Degrees:M.A. (Concordia), Ph.D. (Concordia)
Email:kahente.hornmiller@carleton.ca
Office:3400C ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Tech/Train Ctr, CTTC

Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller (Kahente means “she walks ahead�) (Kanien:keha’ka/Mohawk) received her doctorate in 2009. She is a 2023 National 3M Teaching Fellow and currently the Associate Vice President Indigenous Teaching, Learning and Research.

Dr. Horn-Miller research and teaching is centred in the development of Haudenosaunee-specific research and pedagogical practices. Her research interests include Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous women, identity politics, colonization, Indigenous governance, and consensus-based decision making. Her governance work and community-based research involves interpreting Haudenosaunee culture and bringing new life to old traditions. Her performance piece We are Her and She is Us, is a modern telling of the Haudenosaunee story of creation that centres on Sky Woman and her fall to earth.

She Co-Chaired the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University Strategic Indigenous Initiatives Committee which resulted in °­¾±²Ô೾ವ²¹·É¾±²Ô, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´â€™s revitalized Indigenous strategy. In 2018 she initiated the award winning Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles project which is successfully increasing Indigenous content in classrooms across disciplines.

“Standing With Sky Woman: A conversation in cultural fluency� in Performing Turtle Island: New Essays on Indigenous Theatre and Performance. University of Regina Press. (Fall 2019)

“Bring Us Back into the Dance: Women of the Wasase� in Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. Eds. Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman. Seal Press. 2nd Edition. July 16, 2019.

“How Did Adoption Become A Dirty Word? Indigenous Citizenship Orders as Irreconcilable Spaces of Aboriginality.â€� AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples – Special Edition on Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders. Eds. Kahente Horn-Miller and Damien Lee. Vol.14(4). Pp. 354-364.

“Wild card: making sense of adoption and Indigenous citizenship orders in settler colonial contexts.â€� AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples – Special Edition on Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders. Kahente Horn-Miller and Damien Lee. Vol.14(4). Pp. 293-299.

“IO STER IS (It’s funny): Humour as Medicine in Kanienkehaka Society� originally published in V7.3 (Jun 2015) pp. 21-49. TheQuint, V9.3, June 2018, reprinted. Pp. 107-134.