Robert Innes

Robert Innes

Robert Innes(2005-2006)is Associate Professor of Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. He is a Plains Cree member of Cowessess First Nation who completed his Phd dissertation, titled “The Importance of Kinship Ties to Members of Cowessess First Nation, at the University of Arizona in the American Indian Studies Program. In January 2007, he was appointed to the position of Assistant Professor in the Department. Prior to his appointment Robert was the Pre-Doctoral Fellow in the American Indian Studies Program at Michigan State University. He completed his M.A. at the University of Saskatchewan in Native Studies –  the title of his thesis was “The Socio-Political Influence of the Second World War Saskatchewan Aboriginal Veterans, 1945-1960” -, his B.A. at the University of Toronto with a major in History and a double minor in Aboriginal Studies and English and the Transitional Year Programme at the University of Toronto.