Books

Steeves, P. (2026). Reclaiming Deep Human Histories of the Western Hemisphere: Archaeologists Who Braved Prejudice to Reveal the Evidence. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Steeves, P. (2021). The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (the Americas). Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press. — Awarded the American Library Association (ALA) Choice 2022 Outstanding Academic Title.

Upcoming Books

Steeves, Paulette & Ranjan Datta (2027). Indigenous Cultural and Environmental Heritage: Social Action and Solidarity for Indigenous Rights. Lead/First Editor: Paulette Steeves; Co-editor: Ranjan Datta. University of Arizona Press.

Book Chapters

Steeves, Paulette. (2026). Alterity is a Violent Western Construct: In Indigenous Worldviews, We Are All Related. In Alterity and Human Evolution: Deep-Time and Multispecies Perspectives on Difference and Variation. Eds. Oscar Moro Abadía & Martin Porr. Berghahn Publishers.

Steeves, P. (2024). Round Dancing and Counting Coup in Academic Circles with Vine Deloria, Jr. In David Wilkins (Ed.), A Tribute to Vine Deloria. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NB.

Steeves, P. (2024). My Indian Name is Pyroepistemology: Fire is a Cleansing Path. In George Nicholas & Joe Watkins (Eds.), Being and Becoming an Indigenous Archaeologist (2nd ed.), Indigenous Archaeologies Series, Routledge.

Steeves, Paulette. (2024). Pyroepistemology: Re-Claiming and Reciprocity. In Indigenous Voices: Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge. S. Hatfield (Ed.). Oregon State University Press.

Steeves, P. (2023). Listening to the Land: Honoring Ancestors. In Kahente Horn-Miller & Margaret Kress (Eds.), Land as Relation: Teaching and Learning through Place, People and Practices. Canadian Scholars’/Women’s Press.

Steeves, Paulette. (2022). We Have Always Been Here; Reclaiming and Rewriting Indigenous Histories of Turtle Island. In Being Legendary: Kent Monkman at the Royal Ontario Museum. Art Institute Canada, Massey College.

Steeves, P. (2021). Singing to Ancestors, Respecting and Re-telling Stories Woven Through Ancient Ancestral Lands. In A. McGrath & Russell (Eds.), Companion to Indigenous Global History. Routledge.

Steeves, P. (2020). Our Earliest Ancestors: Human and Non-Human Primates of North America. In Martin Porr & Jacqueline Matthews (Eds.), Interrogating Human Origins: Decolonization and the Deep Past. New York: Routledge.

Steeves, P. (2020). Indigenous Methodologies in Archaeology. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2nd ed.). Claire Smith (Ed.). Springer, New York.

Steeves, P. (2020). The La Sena Site (18,440 ± 90 14C yr BP): A Pre-Clovis Site in South West Nebraska. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2nd ed.). Springer, New York.

Steeves, P. (2020). Deloria, Jr., Vine. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2nd ed.). Springer, New York.

Steeves, P. (2020). Mesa Verde Geography and Culture. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2nd ed.). Springer, New York.

Steeves, P. (2020). Clovis and Folsom, Indigenous occupation prior to. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2nd ed.). Springer, New York.

Book Chapters (In Press)

Steeves, Paulette. (2026). Pyroepistemology: Reclaiming, Reviving, and Weaving Indigenous Knowledge and Rhetorical Sovereignty Through Indigenous Archaeology. In The End of Epistemology in Archaeology? Eds. Oscar Moro Abadía, Kellie Pollard, Ora Marek-Martinez, Craig Cipolla, Sara L. Gonzalez.

Steeves, P. (2027). Pyroepistemology: Responsibilities to the Next Seven Generations. In Indigenous Environmental Heritage: Social Action and Solidarity for Indigenous Environmental Heritage Rights. Eds. Paulette Steeves & Ranjan Datta. University of Arizona Press.

Articles

Steeves, Paulette. (2025). Pyro-epistemology, Reclaiming Knowledge, Histories, Lands, Relations. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Special Edition, UCLA. Guest Editor: Paulette Steeves.

Wabie, J.-L.; Walker, J.; Monague, N. H.; Elliot, M.; Steeves, P.; Carlson-Manathara; Manitowabi; Sabourin, R. (2025). Niigaaniiwin: Vision and Spirit of Our Journey. Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health.

Steeves, Paulette. (2021). Incomplete Indigenous landscapes. Science, 374(6570), 945.

Steeves, P. (2020). Re-Claiming and Re-Writing the Past Through Indigenous Voices and Worldviews. Journal of American Archaeology.

Steeves, Paulette. (2018). Indigeneity. In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press.

Steeves, P. (2017). Unpacking Neoliberal Archaeological Control of Ancient Indigenous Heritage. Archaeologies, 13(1), 48–65.

Steeves, P. (2015). Decolonizing the Past and Present of the Western Hemisphere (The Americas). Archaeologies, 11(1), 42–69.

Steeves, P. (2015). Academia, Archaeology, CRM, and Tribal Historic Preservation. Archaeologies, 11(1), 121–141.

Articles (In Press)

Pansani, T. R., et al. (incl. P. Steeves). (2026). Multidisciplinary research supports a deeper time depth for the peopling of the Americas. Nature.

Steeves, Paulette. (2026). Searching for Unmarked Burials at Residential Schools in Canada: Leave No Child Behind. American Indian Quarterly (AIQ).