Beth Piatote is a Nimi:pu: (Nez Perce) scholar and author. She is a member of Chief Joseph's Tribe and the Colville Confederated Tribes. Piatote is an associate professor of Native American Studies in the department of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley. [1] Piatote holds a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University.
In the mid-1990s, Piatote worked as a reporter with the Eugene Register-Guard . [2] Her research interests include Nimi:pu: (Nez Perce) language and literature, Native American/Aboriginal literature and federal Indian law in the United States and Canada, as well as American literature and cultural studies, history and law. [3] Piatote now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her two children. [4]