Jo-Ann Archibald

Jo-Ann Archibald
OC
Q’um Q’um Xiiem
Archibald receiving the SFU Outstanding Alumni Award in 2012
Born
Chilliwack
Occupation(s)Teacher, academic, author
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University
ThesisCoyote learns to make a storybasket : the place of First Nations stories in education (1997)

Jo-Ann Archibald, also known as Q’um Q’um Xiiem OC, is an Indigenous studies scholar from the Sto:lo First Nation in British Columbia, Canada.

Archibald completed her Bachelor of Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1972. She was awarded a Master's degree in 1984 and a Ph.D in 1997, both from Simon Fraser University. Archibald was a member of the board of directors at the First Nations House of Learning at UBC and was also its Director from 1993 to 2001.

Archibald is a former Associate Dean for Indigenous Education in Educational studies at UBC and a supervisor for the Native Indigenous Teacher Education Program (NITEP) from 1985 to 1992. Archibald was the Director for the International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education after she established a formal relationship between the UBC and the University of Auckland. Archibald focuses a lot of her research on the importance of indigenous story work in the classroom.