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Paulette F. C. Steeves is the Canada Research Chair in Healing and Reconciliation at Algoma University.
Paulette F. C. Steeves | |
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Born | Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada |
Nationality | Cree, Métis, Canadian |
Alma mater | Binghamton University |
Occupation(s) | Academic, Author |
Employer | Algoma University |
Awards | Canada Research Chair |
Website | The Indigenous Paleolithic Database of the Americas |
Steeves is Cree-Métis and was born in Whitehorse, Yukon.[1] She spent her formative years in Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada.[2] Steeves holds an BA in Anthropology degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She holds a Master in Anthropology from the State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY), Her masters thesis was titled "Archaeology, CRM, Academia, and Ethics, and, Akimel O'odham, Type 2 Diabetes: Links to Traditional Food Loss."[3]
In 2008 she was awarded the Clifford D. Clark fellowship to attend graduate studies and earned her PhD in 2015 from Binghamton.[4][5] Steeves dissertation "Decolonising Indigenous Histories: Pleistocene Archeology Sites of the Western hemisphere" was the first thesis using Indigenous method and theory in Anthropology within the United States.[1] Throughout her graduate studies Steeves taught at Fort Peck Community College and Selkirk College.[1]
Following completion of her PhD, Steeves was hired as the interim director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Native American Studies Program.[6] She then taught at Mount Allison University as an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology and Indigenous Studies program.[7]
In 2019 Steeves was hired by Algoma University and appointed as a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Healing and Reconciliation.[3]
She is a member of the Editorial Board for American Antiquity.[8]
Steeves' research focuses on the Pleistocene history of the Americas.[5] Her research argues that artifacts and sacred sites show that Indigenous people were in North America more than 130,000 years ago.[9] Her research decolonizes historical narratives about Indigenous people and settlement of the Americas.[10] Steeves' first book, The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere was published by the University of Nebraska Press in July 2021.[11]
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