Education and career Steeves is Cree-Métis and was born in Whitehorse, Yukon. She spent her formative years in Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada. Steeves holds an BA in Anthropology degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.  In 2008 she was awarded the Clifford D. Clark fellowship to attend graduate studies at Binghamton University and she earned her PhD in 2015 from Binghamton. 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. Throughout her graduate studies Steeves taught at Fort Peck Community College and Selkirk College. Following completion of her PhD, Steeves was hired as the interim director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Native American Studies Program.  Research Steeves research focuses on the Pleistocene history of the Americas. Her research argues that artifacts and sacred sites show that Indigenous people were in North America more than 130,000 years ago. Her research decolonizes historical narratives about Indigenous people and settlement of the Americas. Steeves first book, The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (the Americas) will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2020.
Education and career Steeves is Cree-Métis and was born in Whitehorse, Yukon. She spent her formative years in Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada. 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." In 2008 she was awarded the Clifford D. Clark fellowship to attend graduate studies and earned her PhD in 2015 from Binghamton. 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. Throughout her graduate studies Steeves taught at Fort Peck Community College and Selkirk College. Following completion of her PhD, Steeves was hired as the interim director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Native American Studies Program. She then taught at Mount Allison University as an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology and Indigenous Studies program. Research Steeves research focuses on the Pleistocene history of the Americas. Her research argues that artifacts and sacred sites show that Indigenous people were in North America more than 130,000 years ago. Her research decolonizes historical narratives about Indigenous people and settlement of the Americas. Steeves first book, The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in July 2021.
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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."
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She then taught at Mount Allison University as an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology and Indigenous Studies program.
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July 2021.