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Steeves, P.F. (2021). The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (The Americas) University of Nebraska Press.
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Awarded the American Library Association Outstanding Academic Title 2022.
Written from an Indigenous perspective and informed through Indigenous and Western Knowledge. This story winds through colonization within the Americas and the erasure and denial of a deep Indigenous past in the Americas during the Pleistocene. This book discusses
hundreds of Pleistocene archaeology sites in both North and South America that date to earlier than 11,200 years before present, and re-claims over 100,000 years of Indigenous people’s
history in the Western Hemisphere.
Presenting multiple lines of evidence archaeological, paleontological, paleoenvironmental, linguistics and genetic and discussing the long history of racism in American archaeology and the Western Academy. This story over a century in the making and based in over a decade of constant research provides a counter-story to Western narratives that erase the Indigenous past and limit Indigenous people’s presence in the Western Hemisphere to 12,000 to 15,000 years.
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Many people do not know of the evidence for the Indigenous paleolithic in the Western Hemisphere (the Americas). This book clarifies how ignorance of the Indigenous past is enforced through denial and neglect and racism in the Western academy. The story includes a
chapter of history and discussion of racism in American archaeology and education. The place of rewriting Indigenous histories as paths to healing and addressing racism in contemporary society are also highlighted. Though many archaeologists have spent their careers denying the deep Indigenous past, there are a few who dedicated their lives to truth-telling, and they paid a heavy price for their honesty. This book explains the importance of counterstories focused on decolonizing Western narratives of the Indigenous past, reviving identities, rewriting histories, and reclaiming the homelands and human rights of the Indigenous people of the Western
Hemisphere.
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The research for this book was funded in part by numerous academic and governmental organizations including, The Clifford. D. Clark Diversity Fellowship for Graduate Students State University of New York at Binghamton (fully funded five-year graduate studies fellowship), The Arthur. C. Parker Society for American Archaeology and National Science Foundation Scholarships for Native Americans and Native Hawaiians included Indigenous people of Canada (for graduate fieldwork in Pleistocene sites of the Great Plains 2010), The Denver Museum of Nature and Science Native American Student Internship award ( for archaeology fieldwork on
Pleistocene archaeology sites in the Great Plains 2011 and 2012), Canada Research Chair Tier II Indigenous History Healing and Reconciliation 2019 (5 year award for research on the Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere). All the research for this book including graduate school funding and research across ten years received funding totalling $765,000.00 Current funding for this research on the Indigenous Paleolithic is ongoing through 2024.
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