Cherokee/Choctaw professor emerita at Montana State University, where she earned her Ph.D. in 1981 and later founded and directed the Center for Bilingual/Multicultural Education, securing $27 million in grants and over 450 scholarships for Native American students and women. Best known in ufology for 'Encounters With Star People' (2012), a collection of oral-history accounts from Native American witnesses.
Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, who is Cherokee/Choctaw, holds degrees in history, English, psychology, and educational leadership, earning her Ph.D. from Montana State University in 1981. As a professor emerita there and founding director of the university's Center for Bilingual/Multicultural Education, she secured $27 million in grants and provided more than 450 scholarships to Native American students and women, working with 27 tribal groups across the Northwest; she has been given traditional names by the Blackfeet, Northern Cheyenne, and Lakota Sioux in recognition of that work. Her first book, 'Sisters in the Blood,' became a bestseller in women's studies. She later turned to ufology with 'Encounters With Star People' (2012), a bestselling collection of oral-history accounts from Native American and First Nations witnesses describing star people, luminous craft, and missing-time experiences, followed by further volumes in the same series.