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is the Graduate Student Services and Research Coordinator for the Plateau Center for Native American Programs at Washington State University. Lokensgard earned a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Syracuse University. He has taught at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania and at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. As a researcher, he has worked with members of the Blackfoot Confederacy on repatriation and related topics. He is the author of Blackfoot Religion and the Consequences of Cultural Commoditization (Ashgate Publishing, 2013).