Dr. Kathryn Magee Labelle (Dr. Katie) is a Full Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research projects centre primarily on the histories of  the Wendat/Wyandot(te)/Huron nations, within their historic and current homelands across Turtle Island (North America). Of particular interest is the intergenerational effects of early colonial encounters on matricentric societies and their relationship to Indigenous governance, resistance and community-building strategies. Her publications include the award-winning book Dispersed, But Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth Century Wendat People (UBC Press, 2013). She also co-edited with Thomas Peace From Huronia to Wendakes: Adversity, Migration, and Resilience, 1650-1900 (UO Press, 2016). Her most recent publication was done in collaboration with the Wendat/Wandat Women's Advisory Council, entitled: Daughters of Aataentsic: Life Stories. from Seven Generations (MQUP, 2021). 

Current projects include: a co-written book with Chief Emeritus Janith English (Wyandot Nation of Kansas) Legacy of Love: Tides of Resilience, Regeneration, and Healing; an open access textbook Wendat/Wandat Women's Words; and a family history titled: Étienne Brûlé: A Matricentric History of Relations and Relatives in Early North America

Dr. Katie's teaching practice reflects her research expertise, offering courses on Indigenous-Settler Relations, Ancient North America, Indigenous Diasporas, Indigenous Women and Biography, and Early North American Ethnohistories. Both teaching and research are based on community-guided, circular and (re)generative methodologies that forefront decolonization, historical biography and the experiences of women.

Books

Daughters of Aataentsic: Life Stories from Seven Generations (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021) 

Thomas Peace and Kathryn Labelle eds. From Huronia to Wendakes: Adversity, Migration and  Resilience, 1650-1900. (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016)

Dispersed, But Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat Diaspora (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013). * French Translation LE PARI DE LA DISPERSION. UNE HISTOIRE DES OUENDATS AU 17E. (Montreal: PU Laval, 2014).

Articles/Chapters

Georges E. Sioui and Kathryn Magee Labelle, “The Wendat-Algonquian Alliance: A Case Study of Circular Societies,” Canadian Journal of Native Studies 34:1 (Spring 2014): 1-13.

“‘to live and die with them:’ Wendat Reactions to ‘Worldly’ Rhetoric in The Land of The Dead,” in C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa and Jim J. Buss, eds. Beyond Two Worlds (Fall 2014, SUNY Press) 15-37.

“Faire La Chaudière: The Wendat Feast of Souls, 1636” in French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815 ed. Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013) 1-20.

Carolyn Podruchny and Kathryn Magee Labelle. “Jean de Brébeuf and the Wendat Voices of Seventeenth-Century New France,” Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, Volume 34, no. 1-2 (Fall 2011-Winter 2012): 97-126.

“House and Home: Sixteenth Century Native America” in Karen Kupperman, ed. American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues and Trends that Made U.S. History, Volume. I (MTM Publishing Inc., 2011), 113-119.

“They Spoke Only In Sighs”: The Loss of Leaders and Life In Wendake, 1632-1640,” The Journal of Historical Biography, Volume 6 (Autumn, 2009): 1-33.

“‘For Home and Country’: Agency, Activism and Education of Alberta’s Native Women’s Clubs, 1942-1970,” Native Studies Review, Volume 18, No. 2 (2009): 27-49. 

“‘they are the life of the nation’: Women and War in Nadouek Society,” The Canadian Journal of Native Studies Volume 28, No. 1 (2008): 119-138. 

*Reprinted in Adele Perry, Mona Gleason and Tamara Myers, eds. Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History (Oxford Canada, 2010) 6^th edition.

“History Repeats Itself: Huron Childrearing Attitudes, Eurocentricity, and the Importance of Indigenous Worldview,” The Canadian Journal for Native Education, Volume 31, No. 2 (2008): 4-14.

HIST 125: "Turtle Island" A History of North America's Ancient Civilizations

HIST 432: Turtle Island Stories From Erasure to Empowerment in Early North American Ethnohistories

HIST 151: Pre-Confederation Canada

HIST 398: A History of North American Diasporas

HIST 214: History in Film: Native-Newcomer Relations

HIST 366: (Her)stories

HIST 266:Historical Issues in Indigenous-Settler Relations in North America

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Ph.D. (History) The Ohio State University                                                                                                                     

M.A. (History) The University of Ottawa                                                                                                              

B.A. (History) The University of Ottawa