Dr. Belinda kakiyos膿w Daniels
Assistant Professor
Department of Indigenous Education
- Contact:
- Office: MAC A261 belindadaniels@uvic.ca 250-721-7550
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous Language Revitalization, Indigenous education, Indigenous pedagogy, Immersion camps, land-based education, Indigenous language decolonial assessment and proficiency, Indigenous methodologies, applied linguistics, additional language methods
Biography
tānsi ātawiya kahkiyaw, kitatamiskātināwāw. kakiyosēw - Dr. Belinda Daniels nitisihkāson, pakitahow sākahikan Sturgeon Lake First Nation, SK, Treaty Six Territory ohci niya, māka mitoni kinwes sāskitōminihk nikī-pē-wīkin.
My nēhiyaw name comes from my uncle Dr. Joseph Naytowhow, he gifted it to me when I began my reclamation journey, this too is an honor, to be given a name, which means she who is creative and industrious. I am a mother, grandmother, wife, sister, auntie and a language warrior and a dreamer. I am a long-time educator with 20+ years of classroom, curriculum development and land-based pedagogy. Most importantly, I am an additional language adult learner of nēhiyawēwin.
I am the founder of the a not-for-profit organization in language reclamation that is rooted in community and family-grounded driven research and experience (22 years), I currently sit on the CCUNESCO board for two areas: Indigenous languages and land-based education. I am also on the board with the Canadian Modern Review Journal and the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (ACLA). In 2021, I completed my PhD dissertation on the topic of nēhiyawēwin reclamation and received numerous awards, such National Literacy Award (2024), Excellence in Research Award Emerging Scholar (糖心视频) 2024, and Lifetime Achievement Award with University of Saskatchewan Alumni (2023) to name a few, and an .
Selected Publications
Refereed Journals
Daniels, B., Stone, A., & McIvor, O. (2025). . Canadian Modern Language Review.
Daniels, B., (2025). . Education Sciences, 15(8), 936.
Daniels, B., & Sterzuk, A., Turner, P., Cook, B., thunder, D., & Morin, R. (2025). . Open access
Daniels, B., Ratt, T., Custer, A., Sterzuk., A, Griffith, M., & Fayant R. (2024). . Critical Language Studies
Daniels, B., & Sterzuk, A. (2022). . Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 25 91). 1-18.
Refereed Book Chapters
Custer, A., Sterzuk, A., Daniels, B., Khanam, R., & Fayant, R. (2026). ni-nohtī-nihihtaw-masinahikan: Writing in Indigenous languages at Canadian universities (pp. 163–178). In J. N. Corcoran, C. Payant, S. Sarmento, L. Colombo, M. E. López-Gopar, L. Córdova-Hernández, & F. Patterson (Eds.), . The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado.
Daniels, B., Sterzuk, A., Turner, P, Cook, B., Thunder, D., & Morin, R. (2022). Centering nēhiyawēwin language and Indigenous knowledge production – An ethics of southern research. In K. Heugh, C. Stroud, P. De Costa & K. Taylor-Leech (Eds.) A Sociolinguistics of the South. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Books, Chapters, & Monographs
Daniels, B., & Custer, A. (2022). . University of Regina Press.
Other Publications
Belcourt, C. Daniels, B. & Morin, R. (2023) Let’s Speak Cree (for a while) mahti aciyaw nēhiyawētān. Gabriel Dumont Institute Press.
Daniels, B., Morin, R., Cook, W, Thunder, D., (2022). : tānisi ka-isi mācipitamihk pīkiskwēwin waniskāpicikēwin. Public (pdf) publication
Research
PI, SSHRC Connection Grant - kiyokētan - Let's visit - Centering Indigenous Languages in Rethinking Multilingualism in Education: kiyokētan – let's visit (2023-2026)
CoPI, Uvic Aspirational Research Grant – Centre for Indigenous languages Revitalization Research (2023 -2026)
CoPI, SSHRC Connection Grant – Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (2024)