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About the Author Alice Beck Kehoe received her BA from Barnard College, and PhD from Harvard University, both degrees in anthropology. She is professor of anthropology , emeritus, at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Kehoe’s first book was the college textbook North American Indians: A Comprehensive Account, 1981, with subsequent editions in 1992 and 2006. Other books by Kehoe on American Indians are The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization (1989, second edition 2006), America Before the European Invasions (2002), and Amskapi Pikuni: The Blackfeet People (2012). In archaeology, she has published The Land of Prehistory: A Critical History of American Archaeology (1998) and Controversies in Archaeology (2008). She published two texts in critical thinking for Waveland Press, Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking (2000) and The Kensington Runestone: Approaching a Research Question Holistically (2005). Militant Christianity: An Anthropological History (2012) is Kehoe’s study of the persistence of a pre-Christian worldview and ethos in the contemporary militant Christian Right. Kehoe conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Northern Plains American Indians, particularly on the Montana Blackfeet Reservation where she continues regular visits, and in an Aymara community in Bolivia. With her late husband Thomas Kehoe, she excavated bison drives, tipi ring sites, boulder constructions, and a fur trade post, primarily in Saskatchewan (Canada), and she participated in excavations in France, the Czech Republic , Germany, and Bolivia. Kehoe’s research interests include American Indian history and contemporary circumstances, and history and theory of archaeology. ...