Born into the Chickasaw Tribe of Oklahoma, Eber Hampton grew up in California and obtained his B.A. with Honours in Psychology from Westmont College in Santa Barbara. He went on to graduate school at the University of California, where he studied the Psychology of Human Learning. Later, he enrolled at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and earned a doctorate in administration, planing and social policy. He served as director of Harvard’s American Indian Program for 4 years. After working at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks and the College of Rural Alaska, from 1986 to 1991, Dr. Hampton became president of First Nations University of Canada (formerly Saskatchewan Indian Federated College), and spearheaded the fundraising campaign to build the university’s main campus in Regina. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus of Organizational Theory and Ethics in the Faculty of Business at the University of Regina.

Dr. Hampton has participated on many Boards and Commissions including the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the Advisory Board for the Institute for Aboriginal People’s Health, the Saskatchewan Honours Advisory Council, and is currently a Board Member of the Health Quality Council of Saskatchewan. Dr. Hampton was named as a Regents Fellow of the University of California in 1964, a Bush Leadership Development Fellow, Bush Foundation in 1978. He received the Merit Award for Service from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in 1990, a honourary doctorate from Brock University and a National Aboriginal Achivement Award in 1995. His writings include the essays “Towards a Redefinition of Indian Education” and “Alaska Recovery and Spirit Camps”. Dr. Eber Hampton lives in Regina, SK.