James S. Frideres is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Calgary. During his tenure, he was the Director of the International Indigenous Studies program and held the Chair in Ethnic Studies. Over the past two decades, Frideres has been a major researcher in the area of Indigenous Studies. His numerous articles on Indigenous identity, language, and health have contributed to the base knowledge of the discipline. He has worked with a number of Indigenous communities in supporting their research efforts and worked on land use policies in the Treaty 8 area. Frideres was one of the founders of the pan-Canadian Aboriginal Knowledge Learning Centre that was established in 2005. He has served on the editorial board of several journals and is also the author of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, 9e (with Rene Gadacz), published by Pearson
