Santee Smith Tekaronhiáhkhwa CM is a Canadian Mohawk multidisciplinary artist, dancer, designer, producer, and choreographer.

[3][6] Santee Smith has amassed multiple awards throughout her career and in 2019, she was appointed Chancellor of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

[6][10] In 2005, Smith founded and serves as the artistic director and producer of Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, a Six Nations company based in Toronto.

[6] Smith's work introduces modern Haudenosaunee songs and dance, and mixes it with traditional ones to bring the present and past together in a way that honours the integrity and culture of the material.

[15][16] After researching their significance and history she found that pottery was historically a Mohawk tradition that had gradually dissolved when explorers came to North America.

[12] In the production Blood Ties that she helped produce, she used a piece of pottery that her father specifically curated for the performance, as her parents are very well known Mohawk ceramic artists.

[5] Smith shows how traditionally women within her Haudenosaunee and Mohawk culture were seen as powerful, sexually empowered, and even owners of land and uses her performances as an attempt to reclaim those identities.

[19] With Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, Smith created The Mush Hole: Truth, Acknowledgement, Resilience, a performance piece about the Mohawk Institute, a residential school for First Nations children that operated in Brantford, Ontario.