Publications
Well, it’s not my knowledge that I have contributed, I like to think of it more like this: the knowledge is the energy created between us when we have these discussions, that is actually Waponahki knowledge…
- Wayne Newell, Passamaquoddy Tribal Nation, on Waponahki Knowledge Production
Refereed Articles
Sockbeson, R (2023). Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in Schools.
Alberta Teacher’s Association Magazine - Winter 2023 - 36
Sockbeson, R (2019). Maine Indigenous Education Left Behind: A Call for Anti-Racist Conviction as Political Will Toward Decolonization. Journal of American Indian Education, 58, 3, 105-129.
Sockbeson, R., Weber-Pillwax, C., Sinclair, J., Louis, C., & Auger, S. (2018). Red Hope Pedagogy. Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, 10, 2, 50-57.
Sockbeson, R (2017). Indigenous Research Methodology: Gluskabe's Encounters with Epistemicide. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 6, 1, 1-27.
Sockbeson, R (2016). Honored and Thriving: The Squaw Law and Eradication of Offensive State Place-Names. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 40, 2, 123-138.
Sockbeson, R (2016). Reconciliation in the Face of Epistemicide. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 38, 2.
Sockbeson, R. (2009). Waponahki Intellectual Tradition of Weaving Educational Policy. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 55, 3, 351-364.
Refereed Book Chapter
Sockbeson, R (2017). Waponahki Anti-Colonial Resistance in North American Colonial Contexts: Some Preliminary Notes on the Coloniality of Meta-Dispossession. In Kapoor, D. Against colonization and rural dispossession: Local resistance in South and East Asia, the Pacific and Africa. (1st ed., 28-42). London, UK: Zed Books.
Commissioned Research Report
Sockbeson, R (2020). University of Maine COEHD Libra Professor Report, Fall 2018-19. University of Alberta.
Position Statement
Weber-Pillwax, C., Steinhauer, E., & Sockbeson, R. (2020). Position paper in response to Interim Report of the Academic Restructuring Workgroup: Indigenous Peoples Education for Tomorrow. University of Alberta.
Refereed Research-Creation Publications
& Juried Exhibits
(*students)
Contributors to the McGill Curriculum Design Symposium (2019). Gathering community knowledge, practices, traditions, and values for future generations: Supporting Indigenous education authorities to conduct research for Indigenous curriculum design. Unpublished manuscript, Kahnawàke Education Centre & Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, Kahnawàke & Montreal, QB.
*Auger, S., Sockbeson, R., & *Starr, R. (2017). Institutionalizing reconciliation: Systemic truth mobilization and Indigenous knowledge transfer. Presentation at Hawaii International Conference on Education, Waikiki, Hawaii. Presented by Starr & Auger. Sockbeson served as panel organizer for this presentation. (Abstract Refereed).
Ranco, D., Sockbeson, R., & Tayac, G. (2016). Decolonizing the Chalkboard: Bringing Native American Narratives and Methodologies into the Classroom and Lecture Hall. Proceedings from: From Doctrine to Declaration: Rescinding the Christian Doctrine of Discovery and Promoting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the United States (pp. 19-22). Fife, Scotland: University of St Andrews.
Sockbeson, R., Weber-Pillwax, C., *Starr, R., & *Cortez, S. (2016). Institutionalizing Reconciliation: A call for systemic truth mobilization & Indigenous knowledge transfer – EDPS Research Day Opening Panel Discussion. University of Alberta, Educational Policy Studies Annual Research Day. Edmonton, AB.
Academic Conference Presentations
2021
Sockbeson, R. (2021). MMIWG Calls for Justice; Indigenous Women on Rising Up. Congress 2021 of the Humanities and Social Sciences Gathering Space for Indigenous Scholars, Intersections of Gender, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. *recorded as a legacy project to be offered as an open access curricular resource
2018
Sockbeson, R (2018). Indigenous Knowledge Mobilization, Political Will & Red Hope Indigenizing the Curriculum: Putting the “Native” into Native American Content Instruction Mandates: panel discussion. Presentation at the NAISA Indigenous Education Pre-Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
2016
Sockbeson, R. (2016). A Call for Honoured & Thriving for Aboriginal Women. Presentation at University of Maine, Canadian Studies & Women Studies, Orono, ME.
Sockbeson, R., *Cortez, S. & *Starr, R. (2016). Institutionalizing Reconciliation: A call for systemic mobilization & Indigenous knowledge transfer. Presentation at the Canadian Association for the Study of Indigenous Education (CASIE), University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. (Abstract Refereed). Presented by Cortez and Starr.
Sockbeson, R. (2016). Indigenous Research Methodology: Gluskabe Challenges Epistemicide. Presentation at Educational Research Methodologies seminar for Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
2015
Sockbeson, R. (2015). Institutionalizing Reconciliation & Mobilizing Indigenous knowledge: Indigenous research within the research. Presentation at the 5th Annual International Indigenous Scholars Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
Sockbeson, R. (2015). Indigenous Knowledge Transfer & Epistemology of Love. Paper accepted for presentation at the He Manawa Whenua Indigenous Research Conference, University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ. Unable to attend due to family health emergency.
2014
Sockbeson, R. (2014). First Nations funding gaps and educational policy implications. Presentation at the World Indigenous People’s Education Conference, Kapiʻolani Community College, Honolulu, HI.
Sockbeson, R. (2014). Aboriginal education & the context for professional development. Presentation at the National Annual Indigenous Teacher Education Symposium, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
2013
Sockbeson, R. (2013). Epistemicide & making sense of socio-economic distress. Presentation at Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP) 10th Annual Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
2011
Sockbeson, R. (2011). Connection to land, territory & the Longest Walk. Opening presentation at the Developing Indigenous Land Based Curriculum Conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.
2007
Sockbeson, R. (2007). Understanding racism & Indigenous peoples in education. Presentation at the Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences Conference, University of Saskatchewan. Saskatoon, SK.
Sockbeson R., Weber-Pillwax C., Sinclair J., Louis C. (2007). CURA, Aboriginal Healing Through Language & Culture. Presentation at the Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences Conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.
2005
Sockbeson, R. (2005). Teaching about racism and colonialism in communicating Indigenous experiences in Maine. Presentation at the World Indigenous People’s Education Conference, Hamilton, NZ.
“Mumma, why do they want to kill us… I think it is because they do not know enough about us”
- Sockbeson, 2009
Late Grandma Helen Letendre & Iktome
Sockbeson Family