{"id":6969,"date":"2023-06-27T11:41:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T15:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=6969"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:58:09","slug":"omeasoo-wahpasiw","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/people\/omeasoo-wahpasiw\/","title":{"rendered":"Omeasoo Wahpasiw"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Omeasoo (she\/her) is a nehiyaw iskwew living in Anishinabe territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her PhD dissertation is titled Tla\u2019amin Housing, Architecture and Home Territories in <span data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">the<\/span>&nbsp;20th Century: Invisible spaces Shaping Historical Indigenous Education. It explores&nbsp;<span data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">the<\/span>&nbsp;ways in which Indigenous people have maintained&nbsp;<span data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">the<\/span>ir cultural and spatial heritage even while forced to inhabit architecture that follows colonial paradigms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Omeasoo co-wrote&nbsp;<span data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">the<\/span>&nbsp;Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Women\u2019s Commission submission to&nbsp;<span data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">the<\/span>&nbsp;National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For&nbsp;<span data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">the<\/span>&nbsp;past several years, she has been an Assistant Professor in&nbsp;<span data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">the<\/span>&nbsp;Department of Education at&nbsp;<span data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">the<\/span>&nbsp;University of Prince Edward Island, where she led a suite of courses on Indigenous culture and values, and&nbsp;<span data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">the<\/span>&nbsp;emerging legacy of&nbsp;<span data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">the<\/span>&nbsp;residential schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Omeasoo&nbsp;is cross-appointed with Carleton\u2019s School of Indigenous &amp; Canadian Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6970,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Omeasoo","cu_people_last_name":"Wahpasiw","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[75],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-6969","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-indigenous-studies-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Assistant Professor (On Sabbatical until June 30th, 2027)","cu_people_degree":"PhD Indigenous History (Saskatchewan), MA History (Ottawa), BA History (Saskatchewan)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"Omeasoo.Wahpasiw@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"4215","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8999,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6969\/revisions\/8999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=6969"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=6969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}