Reclaiming Culture Through Archaeology - Ep 49

Today’s podcast features Honey Constant (Sturgeon Lake First Nation), a Masters Student at the University of Saskatchewan and Senior Interpretive Guide at Wanuskewin Heritage Park. We travel through her journey as an Indigenous woman towards a career in Plains Indigenous public archaeology. A few of the topics we cover include Indigenous representation, intergenerational trauma from residential schools, as well as reconciliation, Indigenous Place Names, and navigating virtual vs. in person consultations, interviews, and education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Honey Constant's Website

Honey’s Instagram

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Wanuskewin Facebook Page

USASK Article

Wanuskewin Heritage Parks Snax and Facts Facebook Live with Dr. Kisha Supernant

Dr. Supernant Heritage Voices Episode

Heritage, Tourism, and Race - Ep 48

Today’s podcast features returning guest Dr. Antoinette Jackson, Professor Department of Anthropology Chair at the University of South Florida. We go in depth about her new book Heritage, Tourism, and Race: The Other Side of Leisure. This book was written in response to the common question, “Why are there so few minority visitors to National Parks?”. In response, Dr. Jackson challenges mainstream beliefs about leisure and race, as well as highlighting African American active and diverse pursuits of leisure in spite of the legal and social exclusion. We explore the original enslaved African caving history at Mammoth Cave, the Green Book, Black entrepreneurship, and Black beaches during segregation. We close out by discussing how COVID-19 reframes the concepts of space and exclusion for those who have maybe never had to think about it before, as well as where Dr. Jackson sees the Black Lives Matter movement taking the conversations and hopes present within the book.

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National Park Service Native American Affairs Program - Ep 47

On this month’s podcast we have Dorothy FireCloud, J.D. Ms. FireCloud is the National Park Service’s Native American Affairs Liaison, Assistant to the Director in the Washington DC office, and a member of the Sicangu Lakota [Rosebud Sioux Tribe]. Ms. FireCloud describes her career ladder in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, United States Forest Service, and the National Park Service leading to where she is today. She gives her perspective on continuing the Lakota role of caretaker in her previous positions as Acting Deputy Forest Supervisor at Black Hills National Forest and Superintendent at Devils Tower National Monument. We also discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted tribal consultations, what she would like to accomplish in her current position, and paths people can take if they are interested in federal careers. We end out the interview with a few stories about how the National Park Service has improved when it comes to making Indigenous guests feel welcome and how that only takes two simple words: Welcome Home.

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MOCA 11 2020

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Devils Tower and Prayer Strips

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Tuzi Under Snow 2013

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Protecting the Honuukvetam [Ancestors] - Ep 46

On this month’s podcast we have Desireé Martinez. Desireé is the President of Cogstone Resource Management and Tongva Tribal Archaeologist. During the conversation she takes us along through her journey to becoming an archaeologist. She also talks about what she’d like to change about California archaeology and the CRM industry. Throughout the conversation, she discusses how the journey towards respectful treatment and repatriation of the Honuukvetam [Ancestors] and sacred and cultural sites has shaped her entire career.

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  • http://www.cogstone.com/

  • Mapping indigenous La https://mila.ss.ucla.edu/

  • Carrying our Ancestors home http://www.coah-repat.com/

  • https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/heritagevoices/9 (Working with Museums Panel)

  • https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/heritagevoices/17 (SAA2018 wrap up)

  • https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/heritagevoices/30 (Cultural Landscapes Panel SAA2019 where Cogstone provided the recording space)

  • 2017 Conserving the tataayiyam honuuka’ (Ancestors): A Case Study at the Autry Museum of the American West (with Ösge Gençay-Üstün, Lyliiam Posadas, Karimah Kennedy Richardson, and Cindi Alvitre). In Engaging Conservation: Collaboration across Disciplines. Eds. Nina Owczarek, Molly Gleeson, and Lynn A. Grant. London: Archetype Publications, Pp. 141-158.

  • 2015 Ho'eexokre 'eyookuuka'ro “We're working with each other”: The Pimu Catalina Island Project (with Wendy G. Teeter and Karimah O. Kennedy Richardson). Society for American Archaeology Record 15(1): 25-28.

  • 2014 Indigenous Archaeology. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Ed. Claire Smith. New York: Springer, Pp. 3772-3777.

  • 2014 Returning the tataayiyam honuuka' (Ancestors) to the Correct Home: The Importance of Background Investigations for NAGPRA Claims (with Wendy G. Teeter and Karimah O. Kennedy Richardson). Curator 57(2):199-211.

  • 2012 A Land of Many Archaeologists: Archaeology with Native Californians. California: Contemporary Issues in the Archaeology. Eds. Terry Jones and Jennifer Perry. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, Pp. 355-367.

  • 2009 Native American Perspectives of California Archaeology (with Wendy Teeter). In Archaeology in America Encyclopedia. Ed. Frank McManamon, et al. Santa Barbara: Greenwood Publishing Group, Pp. 26-30.

  • 2006 Overcoming Hindrances to Our Enduring Responsibility to the Ancestors: Protecting Traditional Cultural Places. Special Issue: Decolonizing Archaeology, American Indian Quarterly 30(3): 486-503.

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Maori Homes and Communities - Ep 45

On today’s episode Jessica hosts Jacqueline Paul (Ngapuhi, Ngati Tuwharetoa, and Ngati Kahungunu ki Heretaunga), Māori Landscape Architect, Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Researcher at Ngā Wai a Te Tūi Māori and Indigenous Research Centre at Unitec. We talk about representation and including diverse perspectives into your work (and not forgetting to include young people!). We also talk about the Maori concept of home and how Maori and Western perspectives are coming together. Also, how to advocate for change, including homelessness and it’s disparate effects. Finally, this episode was recorded in early April 2020, so naturally we were talking about COVID-19. We talked about culture and home, as well as how privilege affects your experience and structural violence within a pandemic.

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