John W. (Jack) Ives received his B.A. (High Honours) from the University of Saskatchewan in 1974, his M.A. from the University of Alberta in 1977, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1985, all in Anthropology. From 2007 to the present, he has been a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, and from 2012-2017, the Landrex Distinguished Professor. Ives was also the founding Executive Director of the Institute of Prairie Archaeology (2008-2019), now the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, where he remains a Research Associate. From 1979-2007, Ives served with the Archaeological Survey of Alberta, the Royal Alberta Museum, and the Historic Resources Management Branch, with senior management responsibilities as Alberta’s Provincial Archaeologist for 21 years, where he was the recipient of three Premier’s Awards. He is an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University and the University of Saskatchewan. Ives was the recipient of the University of Michigan’s Distinguished Dissertation Award, subsequently published as A Theory of Northern Athapaskan Prehistory. With Joel Janetski, he is co-editor of the forthcoming Holes in Our Moccasins, Holes in our Stories, University of Utah Press, an edited volume on Apachean Origins.