Check out this important new paper, co-written by IPIA scholars Dr. Kisha Supernant ( @archaeomapper.bsky.social) and Solène Mallet Gauthier (@somag.bsky.social), on confronting and disrupting "grey zones" in Canadian archaeology 🏺

Communties need reliable sources of information and guidance to help support the sacred work of searching for missing children. The defunding of the NAC is a huge setback for the work.

Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta@uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 2y ago

IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant: "We are extremely disheartened and disappointed by the decision not to renew funding for this work, which is so important to reconciliation and to healing for our people." Read this important statement on the Gov't of Canada not renewing funding for the NAC:

Registration is open for the upcoming IPIA speaker series! It is a hybrid event featuring some of our scholars sharing their amazing research about stories of landscape.

Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta@uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exciting news - our first Speaker Series Event of 2025 is coming soon! Join @ldagg.bsky.social, @rdwambold.bsky.social, and @cultarchaeo.bsky.social on Feb 27, 3:30 pm MT, to hear about the different ways they examine landscapes in their research 🏺 Hybrid event, reg. required for online attendees 👇

Hello everyone! It's time for a proper introduction! We are the IPIA, an Indigenous-led institute at the University of Alberta. We are committed to continuing to support Indigenous-engaged archaeological research 🏺 1/5

The IPIA partnered with Chipewyan Prairie First Nation to offer archaeological training to community members in what we hope will be the first of many courses of this type. Thanks to @mapsworth.bsky.social for being the amazing instructor! www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...

Video Spotlight: Indigenous learners delve into archaeology

A new U of A micro-course in archaeology teaches young Indigenous adults how to investigate and identify cultural artifacts, with a view to keeping them on First Nations land.

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The same people who believe in “The Great Replacement Theory,” who think they will all be replaced by foreigners, will all actually be giddily replaced by AI by their tech bro overlords.

Feeling deeply inspired (dare I even say hopeful?) after an extraordinary session. Seeing heart-centered archaeology resonate with people across so many places, contexts, and positionalities was wonderful. Thank you to all the amazing participants! #SHA2025 #archaeology

Today's the day! Session starts at 9 am in Galerie 2.

Kisha Supernant@archaeomapper.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to be in New Orleans for #SHA2025! I'm co-chairing an all day session Friday on Landscapes of Care: Exploring Heart-centered Practice in Historical Archaeology with a diverse and intriguing set of papers. If you are here, come check it out! #archaeology #NOLA

In 1850, the California government banned the controlled burning that Indigenous people had been doing for centuries. The practice controlled the forest density, scaled down undergrowth, and promoted fire-resistant species. It reduced the severity, mileage, and overall number of forest fires. 1/5

Excited to be in New Orleans for #SHA2025! I'm co-chairing an all day session Friday on Landscapes of Care: Exploring Heart-centered Practice in Historical Archaeology with a diverse and intriguing set of papers. If you are here, come check it out! #archaeology #NOLA

We don’t do this for credit; we do it for JUSTICE and COMMUNITY CARE. We do it because Ancestors are being brutalized in death. #Repatriation to descendant communities is the only ethical way forward.

Archaeologists used GPR to identify the probable location of a cemetery for people who were enslaved by Andrew Jackson on the grounds of The Hermitage plantation. 🧪🏺

Burials of 28 people Andrew Jackson enslaved found at his Hermitage plantation in Tennessee

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, enslaved hundreds of people. Archaeologists have discovered where 28 of them were buried.

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🏺🧪🦴 Amazing opportunity for two PhD students to join us at Cambridge Uni! Topic: later pastoralists in Kenya, diet, mobility #archaeology #isotopes #zooarch www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49439/

Michaela Ecker@isotopesrule.bsky.social · 2y ago

Two PhD Studentships in the Archaeology of Later Pastoralism in Kenya, inclusing one focussing on #stableIsotopes and #zooarchaeology, at Cambridge University (starting October 2025): www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49439/ #jobalert #PhDpositions

After being trapped in Early View purgatory for over a year, the article @mapsworth.bsky.social, @archaeomapper.bsky.social, and I wrote together has *officially* been published in a special issue of Archaeological Prospection! Available open access below: 🏺

Saying what we mean, meaning what we say: Managing miscommunication in archaeological prospection

In North America, archaeological prospection has recently undergone a surge in popularity, resulting in higher visibility for both scientific and fringe narratives. This has been partially due to inc...

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This is how it’s done.

Another great starter pack created by @archaeocobb.bsky.social highlights all the archaeologists doing a great job highlighting diversity, equity, and inclusion Check out this great group of scholars and activists in the field. And be sure to follow Prof Prof Hannah Cobb! bsky.app/starter-pack...

“Native peoples are not mascots for sport and entertainment. It is impossible to heal from the decades of racism inflicted on us by way of the team’s fan traditions and former name if we must continue making this point." #NotYourMascot www.huffpost.com/entry/washin...

Washington’s Football Team Ditched Its Offensive Name, But A Senator Wants To Save The Logo

A senator is pushing the NFL team to “restore” the former logo, which is widely seen by Native American groups as insulting.

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I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

After years of the families pushing for action, the landfill search for the remains of two First Nation women who were killed by a Winnipeg serial killer began on Monday. Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew spoke to media about the search.

Landfill search for the remains of two women begins in Manitoba | APTN News

YouTube video by APTN News

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📣 Contact your Congress members today! Tell them they must pass the bipartisan U.S. Truth & Healing Commission Bill NOW if they ever want to see truth, justice, and healing for boarding school survivors and their families. Act Now: bit.ly/4fDDK9F

Reading through old reports always makes me angry at how much Métis archaeology has been destroyed, ignored or impacted because it was deemed "historic" and therefore less important than earlier material. #archaeology #indigenous

If you have family or friends who aren't convinced of the horrors brought upon Indigenous people in Canada maybe tell them the story of how the federal government murdered thousands of sled dog puppies to try and destroy the Inuit way of life

APTN News@aptnnews.bsky.social · 2y ago

Tonight on APTN National News: The federal government apologizes for its role in the killing of Inuit sled dogs in Nunavik in the 1950s and 1960s. We speak with AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak about the organization’s upcoming meeting in Ottawa. Watch live: youtube.com/live/mFPEpA1...

The association Atlantis with white supremacy is well documented. It's not archaeologists looking back to the 1800's to make that association, it's the white supremacists themselves who are writing and saying it as recently as 2024.

This is a dangerous precedent to set. The fact that both tribal affiliations and pronouns were targeted demonstrates that we need to have solidarity across many different issues and uplift each others voices. #Indigenous #LBGTQIA2S+

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Sicillian: I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the half-full cup in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it so I can clearly not choose the half-empty cup in front of me

Sarah Fritz@sarahfritz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Clara Schumann: Only in music could I express my longing for my half empty cup to be full again.

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Archaeologist: The cup is a ritual object used in strange, esoteric ways by ancient people. Indigenous person: The cup is the belonging of my ancestor and none of your business.

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

We didn't write this one

The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 2y ago

BC Hydro intends to give the Site C dam and reservoir permanent Indigenous names, a plan called inappropriate by the chief of a First Nation whose traditional territory was flooded by it VIA @sarahkcox.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/site-c-dam-g...

Are you one of the many profs assigning my article "Beyond Territorial Acknowledgments" in your class? Well I've got an updated version for you! apihtawikosisan.com/2024/11/revi...

Yukon First Nations artists are fighting to protect their artistic practices. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...