Photo of Kahente Horn-Miller (on-leave)

Kahente Horn-Miller (on-leave)

Associate Vice-President, Indigenous Teaching, Learning and Research; Associate Professor, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies

Degrees:M.A. (Concordia), Ph.D (Concordia)
Email:Kahente.Hornmiller@carleton.ca

Dr. Kahente Horn-Miller (Kahente means “she walks ahead�) (Kanien:keha’ka/Mohawk) received her doctorate in 2009. She is a mother to four daughters and grandmother. Currently she is an Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and Associate Vice-President, Indigenous Teaching, Learning and Research.

As an active member of her community, Dr. Horn-Miller is a figurative bridge builder as she engage with issues that are relevant to her work and academic interests such as 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. It is the fruit of her endeavors as a Mohawk, an educator, and a mother that she brings into her interactions with Kahnawà:ke:ronon (people of Kahnawà:ke) and the academic community.

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 Indigenous Collaborative 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.� 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.� 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 Societyâ€� originally published in V7.3 (Jun 2015) pp. 21-49. °Õ³ó±ð²Ï³Ü¾±²Ô³Ù,ÌýV9.3, June 2018, reprinted. Pp. 107-134.