Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (Turtle Mountain Ojibwa) received her PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2008. Her doctoral research focused on Anishinaabe treaty-making with the United States and Canada and serves as the foundation for her manuscript, Unsettled: Anishinaabe Treaty-Relations and U.S./Canada State-Formation (in progress, University of Minnesota Press, First Peoples