{"id":77206,"date":"2021-06-15T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=77206"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:23","slug":"carleton-expert-available-reclaiming-traditional-indigenous-names-on-canadian-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2021\/carleton-expert-available-reclaiming-traditional-indigenous-names-on-canadian-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Expert Available &#8211; Reclaiming Traditional Indigenous Names on Canadian Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Expert Available &#8211; Reclaiming Traditional Indigenous Names on Canadian Passports\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>As the Canadian government announced that Indigenous people can now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/indigenous-traditional-names-passport-1.6064850\">reclaim traditional names<\/a> on their passports and other ID, a Carleton expert is available to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kahente Horn-Miller (Kanienkehaka)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Associate Professor, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:kahente.hornmiller@carleton.ca\">kahente.hornmiller@carleton.ca&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kahente Horn-Miller (Kahente means \u201cshe walks ahead\u201d) (Kanien:keha\u2019ka\/Mohawk) is a figurative bridge builder as she continues to research and write on issues such as Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous women, identity politics, colonization, Indigenous governance and consensus-based decision-making for her community and our wider society. Her governance work and community-based research involves interpreting Haudenosaunee culture and bringing new life to old traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She continues to work with the research advisory for the Kahnaw\u00e0:ke Diabetes Prevention Project along with writing and publishing in her areas of interest. It is the fruit of her endeavours as a Mohawk, an educator and a mother that she brings into her interactions with Kahnaw\u00e0:ke:ronon (people of Kahnaw\u00e0:ke) and the academic community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><b><br>\n<\/b>Steven Reid<br>\nMedia Relations Officer<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-265-6613<br>\n<a href=\"mailto:Elizabeth.Murphy@carleton.ca\">Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow us on Twitter<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/cunewsroom\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\n<strong>COVID 19 Updates:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/\">https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Canadian government announced that Indigenous people can now reclaim traditional names on their passports and other ID, a Carleton expert is available to comment. Kahente Horn-Miller (Kanienkehaka) Associate Professor, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies Email: kahente.hornmiller@carleton.ca&nbsp; Kahente Horn-Miller (Kahente means \u201cshe walks ahead\u201d) (Kanien:keha\u2019ka\/Mohawk) is a figurative bridge builder as she continues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":77207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-77206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-indigenous-canadian-studies"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77210,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77206\/revisions\/77210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}