Rebecca Sockbeson

Rebecca Sockbeson is a Wabanaki scholar and activist in the field of Indigenous Peoples' education.

Sockbeson is a member of the Penobscot Indian Nation of Indian Island and Wabanaki Confederacy of tribes located in Maine, United States and the Maritime provinces of Canada. She is the eighth child of the Elizabeth Sockbeson clan, the auntie of over 100 Waponahki & Stoney Sioux youth and the mother of three children who are also of the Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation of Alberta. She is the niece of State of Maine Senior Advisor on Tribal Affairs Donna Loring. Sockbeson is an associate professor of Indigenous Peoples Education focusing on Indigenous knowledge and knowledge mobilization, Aboriginal healing through language and culture, anti-racism and decolonization with the Department of Educational Policy Studies in the Faculty of Education and the associate director of Intersections of Gender at the University of Alberta. Sockbeson's poem written in honor of missing and murdered Indigenous women, ''“Hear me in this concrete beating on my drum”'', was a winning entry in the Word on the Street Poetry Project in 2018 and is sandblasted on a downtown Edmonton sidewalk as part of a permanent public art installation. Provided by Wikipedia