Prof. Dempsey is an enrolled member of the Blood Tribe. His Ph.D. is from the University of East Anglia (England), 2001. He has published a number of articles in periodicals and edited books and his major opus, Blackfoot War Art, was published in 2007 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Forthcoming work of Prof. Dempsey deals with his long-standing interest in Western Canadian Indian War Veterans in the 20th Century. [Top of page]