Since 1998, Dr. Jones has been Principal Investigator at the Bauu Institute and Press in Boulder, CO, where he is also the Editor of Indigenous People's Issues & Resources, a Bauu Institute publication. Dr. Jones has served as a research analyst and lead cultural anthropologist for National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) studies, Environmental Impact Studies (EIS), Natural Resource Damage Assessments (NRDA), Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) studies, and other federal, state, and National Parks level documents and management reports. Dr. Jones has been the editor for four scholarly publications, and has been the author or co-author of a total of twenty-two books, book chapters, and journal articles, principally on cultural anthropology of Native America. Dr. Jones has authored or co-authored several dozen commissioned technical reports, including several on natural resource management for the National Park Service, and on cultural and natural resource management for a number of Native American tribal groups. He has written forty-six entries in the Encyclopedia of World History, Volumes 2-4, and additionally has authored nine reviews of books on indigenous people's cultural history and psychological studies. Between 2001 and 2008, Dr. Jones participated in fourteen scholarly conferences, and he has won a total of sixteen grants, fellowships, contracts, and academic awards.A native of Colorado, Dr. Jones was born in the state and has lived there for most of his life. His parents were of Welsh, Norwegian, and Choctow ancestry. Currently he lives in the foothills of Colorado's Rocky Mountains, where he writes, conducts research, and gardens with his wife, Tara.