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Ken S. Coates (b. 1956)
Ken Coates was born in Banff, Alberta and raised in Whitehorse.1) Dr. Coates is a historian specializing in the Canadian north and Indigenous rights. He received his B.A. Ph.D from the University of British Columbia and his M.A. from the University of Manitoba.2)
In the 1980s, Dr. Coates was a guest lecturer at Yukon College (now Yukon University) and contributed to the design and curriculum of the Northern Studies program. In 1988, he co-founded The Northern Review With Dean Aron Senkpiel and instructor Norm Easton. It is the only peer-reviewed Canadian publication devoted to northern issues and published north of the 60th parallel.3)
Between 1991 and 1995, Dr. Coates was first vice-president academic at the University of Northern British Columbia. He taught at the University of Waikato in New Zealand (1995 – 1997), was Dean of Arts at the University of New Brunswick (1997 – 2000), taught at the University of Saskatchewan (2001 – 2004), and the University of Waterloo (2006 – 2012).4) In February 2023, Dr. Coates became the chair of Yukon University’s Batchelor of Arts in Indigenous Governance program. The program was developed in partnership with fourteen Yukon First Nations.5)
Dr. Coates has written many, many articles and books including Best Left as Indians: Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840 – 1973. (1991).