First Voices Radio PODCAST: Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis)

 

PAULETTE IS A GENIUS - I MET HER IN CONNECTICUT

 

REPEAT SHOW.  Tiokasin speaks with Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis). Paulette is an Indigenous archaeologist with a focus on the Pleistocene history of the Western Hemisphere.  In her research, Paulette argues that Indigenous peoples were present in the Western Hemisphere as early as 100,000 years ago, and possibly much earlier. She has created a database of hundreds of archaeology sites in both North and South America that date from 250,000 to 12,000 years before present, which challenges the Clovis First dogma of a post 12,000 year before present initial migrations to the Americas.  During her doctoral studies, she worked with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to carry out studies in the Great Plains on mammoth sites which contained evidence of human technology on the mammoth bone, thus showing that humans were present in Nebraska over 18,000 years ago.  Paulette has taught Anthropology courses with a focus on Native American and First Nations histories and studies, and decolonization of academia and knowledge production at Binghamton University, Selkirk College Fort Peck Community College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Mount Allison University, she is currently an Associate professor in Sociology and Anthropology.

Paulette has stated that rewriting and un-erasing Indigenous histories becomes a part of healing and reconciliation transforming public consciousness and confronting and challenging racism.  Long-standing academic denial of the deep Indigenous fosters racism and discrimination among the general or settler population.  Re-writing Indigenous histories, framed through Indigenous knowledge, will create discussions that counter racism and discrimination. 

Dr. Steeve’s book “The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Americas” was published in 2021 by The University of Nebraska Press. 

https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496202178/

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Karen Martinez (Mayan), Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor 

LINK:

https://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/