About Us

Biography: I am an archaeologist with active fieldwork in the Great Lakes region of the U.S.More »

Catherine Bell is a Professor of Law at the University of Alberta and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Niigata Japan, University of Victoria, Program of Legal Studies for Native People (University of Saskatchewan), and the Akitsiraq Law School, Nunavut.More »

Rosemary J. Coombe is trained as an anthropologist and as a lawyer, receiving her PhD from Stanford University in 1992.More »

Biography: T.J. Ferguson owns Anthropological Research LLC, a research company in Tucson, Arizona, where he is also a Professor of Practice in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Dr. Ferguson specializes in archaeological and ethnographic research needed for historic preservation, repatriation, and litigation of land and water rights.More »

Biography: Daniel G has been working with the Nunavik Inuit for the past 20 years, where he has been carrying out archaeological research with the Inuit.More »

Biography: Sheila Greer (Edmonton, Alberta) is a self-employed anthropologist and research associate (U. Alberta). Her specialty is land-based heritage and she works for/with Champagne and Aishihik and other self-governing Yukon First Nations.

Biography: Robert Alan Hershey (JD, 1972, University of Arizona) is an attorney who specializes in indigenous human rights, and holds an Adjunct Professor of Law position with a joint appointment in American Indian Studies (AIS).More »

Terri Janke is an Indigenous lawyer and solicitor, and director of Terri Janke and Company, a private law firm specializing in Indigenous cultural and intellectual property. She is also a Council member of Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

Biography: Lyn Leader-Elliott is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Tourism at Flinders University, South Australia.More »

Dorothy Lippert is Choctaw and works in the Repatriation Office of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. 

Biography: Randall McGuire (BA University of Texas, MA & PhD University of Arizona) was born in Fort Collins, Colorado and grew up in Colorado, Texas, and Montana. He became fascinated with archaeology as a child visiting bison jump sites on the high plains. His experiences in the U.S.More »

Jim Molnar is a Research Manager in the Historical Services Branch of Parks CanadaMore »

George Sombe Mukuka holds two PhD degrees: in History from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and in Archaeology from the University of Witwatersrand.More »

Biography: George Nicholas is Professor of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. From 1991 to 2005, he developed and directed SFU’s internationally known Indigenous Archaeology Program in Kamloops, BC. He has worked closely with the Secwepemc and other First Nations in Canada, the United States, and Australia.More »

Biography: Sven Ouzman is Curator of Pre-Colonial Archaeology in the Social History Department of the Iziko South African MuseumMore »

Biography: I first travelled to the Arctic in 1974 as a field assistant on an archaeological excavation in northern Baffin Island and was captivated by the people and the land. My research interests include Arctic archaeology, public archaeology, material culture studies, oral history, representation, and repatriation.More »

Biography: Maui Solomon (Moriori, Kai Tahu, and Pakeha (English, Irish, French, and German)) Maui is a Barrister and Indigenous Peoples Advocate with 22 years legal experience specialising in land and fishing claims, cultural and intellectual property, environmental law and Treaty/Indigenous Peoples Rights issues.More »

Biography: Joe Watkins is currently the Director of the Native American Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma, as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the University's Department of Anthropology.More »

Biography: Dongya Yang holds BSc in biology, MSc and Ph.D. in anthropology.More »

Biography: James O. Young is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. He is the author of three books, including Cultural Appropriation and the Arts (Blackwell, 2008) and editor of several more, including (with Conrad Brunk) The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (Blackwell, 2009).