Steve Pavlik Editor & Author

Steve Pavlik teaches Native American Studies and Native Environmental Science at Northwest Indian College, Bellingham, Washington. He has over thirty-five years of teaching experience in the field of American Indian education. Mr. Pavlik holds a MA in American Indian Studies and a M. Ed. in American History from the University of Arizona. He is the author or editor of four books including Destroying Dogma: Vine Deloria, Jr. and His Influence on American Society (edited with Daniel R. Wildcat) and over 70 other published articles, essays, and reviews. His academic specialty areas include Native American religion and spirituality, ethnozoology, cognitive ethology, and environmental ethics. Mr. Pavlik is also a naturalist and environmental activist. William B. Tsosie Jr. is an orthodox Navajo traditionalist and resides in the Navajo Reservation of the Four Corners region. He is an enrolled Navajo Nation tribal member and is married to Janice Catherine (Sun Clan) of Jemez Pueblo and has a daughter, son, and five grandchildren. He has Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Southwest Studies from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado and his Associate of Arts degree in Humanities is from Dine College. He is currently working as a Supervisory Archaeologist for Navajo Nation Archaeology Department in the Shiprock, New Mexico Office.