Kwatsáan Voices, Kwatsáan Views - Ep 54

On today’s podcast Jessica interviews Zion White, Charles Arrow, and Aaron Wright from Archaeology Southwest, a 501c3 based in Tucson, Arizona. Archaeology Southwest is working with several Tribes in southern Arizona to establish permanent protection for the Great Bend of the Gila, a rich cultural landscape nestled between Yuma and Phoenix. Today’s guests have been documenting the Great Bend of the Gila landscape together over the past several years. They talk about the significance of this landscape both culturally and archaeologically, how they’d like to see the place treated, and what it means to them to be working collaboratively on documenting this cultural landscape.

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Methods in Indigenous Archaeology - Ep 53

On today’s podcast we have Carlton Shield Chief Gover back on the show. In addition to being a host of the A Life in Ruins and Sites Bites podcasts on the Archaeology Podcast Network, Carlton is also a PhD student at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. We talk about the three podcasts he hosts and an upcoming volume on Indigenous Archaeology methods he is co-authoring with some of your favorite past Heritage Voices guests. He also talks about his efforts in work showing that Indigenous people in the US had horses before the historical records acknowledge and his recent work conducting interviews with elders on the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. Finally we talk about museum accessibility and collaborations.

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Anti-Colonial Digital Archaeology in Canada and India - Ep 52

Today’s podcast features Dr. Neha Gupta, Assistant Professor in Anthropology at The University of British Columbia, Okanagan. We talk about how archaeology in both India and Canada is shaped by colonialism in different and similar ways. Dr. Gupta explains how she is perceived working in the two different settings as a South Asian woman and how she uses digital tools towards an anti-colonial archaeology in both India and Canada. This discussion focuses on varied topics ranging from the MINA | Map Indian Archaeology project and how to balance open research with the rights of Indigenous people.

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Language, Community, and Context - Ep 51

Today’s podcast features Dr. Jenny Davis, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and an Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbaana-Champaign. She is the director of the American Indian Studies Program and the 2019-2023 Chancellor's Fellow of Indigenous Research & Ethics. We get in depth on language revitalization, including the importance of context, resources for people interested in language revitalization, the challenge of evaluating results, and how the way we frame discussions of language revitalizations matters. Finally, we talk about how language intersects first with gender and sexuality and also with NAGPRA and repatriation.

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  • loksi@illinois.edu

  • @ChickashaJenny

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Native Youth and Land Based Education - Ep 50

On today’s podcast Jessica interviews Dr. Lindsey Schneider, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University. We dive deep into the Indigenous Science, Technology, Arts, & Resilience (ISTAR) Camp that she collaboratively developed with Indigenous community members in Fort Collins, the Poudre School District, Bohemian Foundation, CSU Access Center and Fort Collins Museum of Discovery. We talk about in depth about developing youth camps and other programs in general with Indigenous communities, especially in suburban or semi-urban areas. Finally we talk about continually adapting place based learning during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Dr. Schneider: Lindsey.Schneider@colostate.edu

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