John L. Steckley (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian scholar specializing in Native American studies and the Indigenous languages of the Americas.
[3] He was also given the name "Hechon" by descendants of the Huron in Loretteville, Quebec City, while teaching them their own historical language.
[3] This was a name that had previously been given to Jean de Brébeuf (1593–1649), one of the North American Martyrs, by his Huron and Wyandot followers.
[1][5] In 2007, Laval University received a federal grant of $1 million for development of its Huron-language teaching materials in collaboration with Steckley.
[1] Steckley has written widely on a variety of sociological and anthropological topics, including a recent book on gibbons.