Paulette Steeves

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 13,000 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]

• Tier II Canada Research Chair, 2019.[12]
• UMASS Amherst SBS Research Grant, 2016.
• SUNY Binghamton GSEU Professional Development Award, 2013.[13]
• American Archaeology Association, Archaeology Division, Student Travel Grant, 2012.[14]
• Society for American Archaeology, Arthur C. Parker Scholarship, 2010[15]
• Clifford D. Clark Fellowship, 2015.[4]

• Steeves, P. (2021). The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere. University of Nebraska Press.
• Steeves, P. (2020). Mesa Verde Geography and Culture. ''Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology' 2nd edition. (Ed.), Claire Smith. Springer New York.
• Steeves, P. (2020). Clovis and Folsom, Indigenous occupation prior to. ''Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology' 2nd edition. (Ed.), Claire Smith. Springer New York.
• Steeves, P. F. (2019). Our Earliest Ancestors. Interrogating Human Origins: Decolonisation and the Deep Human Past.
• Steeves, P. F. (2018). La Sena. Journal: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 1-10.
• Steeves, P. (2017). Unpacking Neoliberal Archaeological Control of Ancient Indigenous Heritage. Archaeologies, 13(1), 48–65.
• Steeves, Paulette. F (2016). Unpacking Neo-liberal Archaeological control of Ancient Indigenous Heritage. Critical Heritage Conference, Session Heritage and the Late Modern State. Archaeologies, Journal of the World Archaeological Congress. Special Edition.
• Steeves, P. F. (2015). Decolonizing Indigenous histories, Pleistocene archaeology sites of the Western Hemisphere. State University of New York at Binghamton.
• Steeves, P. (2015). Academia, Archaeology, CRM, and Tribal Historic Preservation. Archaeologies, 11(1), 121–141.
• Steeves, P. F. (2014). We are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements. By Lynn Stephen. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013.

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• Traditional Knowledge & Reconciliation - Dr. Paulette Steeves presents at the Universities Canada 5th Annual Building Reconciliation Forum, December 12, 2019
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