Dr. Belinda Daniels Awarded Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award

Today we are proud and honoured to share that one of Dr. Debbie Pushor’s former doctoral students, Dr. Belinda Daniels, has been awarded a 2023 Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the University of Saskatchewan Alumni Association.

As the highest honour presented by the University of Saskatchewan Alumni Association, this award recognizes an alumnus/alumna for an outstanding lifetime of personal and professional accomplishments and contributions to the social, cultural, and economic well-being of society in their field(s) of endeavor.

About Dr. Daniels

Dr. Belinda (kakiyosēw) Daniels’ work to preserve and teach Indigenous language is transformative and nation-building for Indigenous people.

Daniels is from the community of pakitahwākan sākahikan – Sturgeon Lake First Nation, Sask. She is a faculty member at the University of Victoria and founder of the nēhiyawak Language Experience, a non-profit organization. She was awarded the Outstanding Indigenous Educator Award of 2015 by the Canadian Teachers’ Federation. Her work in Indigenous language revitalization has also been recognized by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.

Daniels co-published the book, nēhiyawētan kīkināhk: Speaking Cree in the Home, which was nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award and a ‘how-to’ guidebook for creating a language camp. She is co-authoring another book on the topic of learning survival phases for immersion settings in an Indigenous language.

We are incredibly proud of Belinda’s work and this monumental achievement. This award is so very well-deserved. To learn more about Belinda’s work with Debbie, click here.