Ruth Phillips is professor of art history at Carleton University. She is author or editor of many books, including Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900 (UWP, 1998), Native North American Art, coauthored with Janet Berlo (Oxford, rev. 2014), and Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums (McGill-Queens, 2011).