Heritage Voices
76 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 16 ratingsJessica Yaquinto is an ethnographer and deals in tribal consultation. The podcast includes topics on mediating between tribes, community based participatory research, and tribes' perspectives of anthropology.
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The Utes as a Forgotten People - Ep 69
December 20, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutesOn today's episode, Jessica hosts Ernest House, Jr. (Ute Mountain Ute), Senior Policy Director for the Keystone Policy Center and former Executive Director for the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs (CCIA). Ernest talks about his experiences working for CCIA including their efforts in collaboration with 48 tribes associated with the state of Colorado to develop a statewide repatriation policy and his work to support the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations' ongoing efforts to commemorate the Sand...
Indigenous Fire and Climate Justice - Ep 68
November 15, 2022 09:00 - 50 minutes - 68.8 MBOn today's episode, Jessica hosts Deniss Martinez (Tutunaku descendant), PhD candidate in Ecology at UC Davis. Deniss’ dissertation research focuses on Indigenous cultural burning, so we explore what cultural burning is, the diversity within cultural burning, how federal and state agencies can better collaborate with cultural burning practitioners, as well as how practitioners are facing the threat of climate change. Throughout the episode we talk about centering Indigenous voices and utiliz...
PROMO - Finding Our Religion with Dr. Candace Lukasik - The Dirt 208
October 18, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 93.6 MBThe Archaeology Podcast Network is taking a bit of a break for October, 2022. In the mean time, we’re introducing you to some of the other fantastic shows that we produce. Here’s an episode from The Dirt Podcast about “Finding our Religion” with a guest anthropologist and ethnographer. Candace is an anthropologist and ethnographer whose research focuses on the intersections of transnational migration, religion, race, and empire. We learned so much in this episode! It's always such a treat ...
Makoons to Makwa: Early Career Archaeological Contracting - Ep 67
September 20, 2022 08:00 - 53 minutesOn today's episode, Jessica hosts Anastasia Walhovd (Ojibwe), Founder of Makoons Consulting, LLC and the Tribal Archaeology Network. We talk about her journey and experience running Makoons Consulting, where she provides archaeological field technician services in the Upper Midwest and Southwest. We also talk about her vision of creating more of a network of Indigenous Archaeologists and how that led to the creation of the Tribal Archaeology Network, as well as her ultimate vision and goals ...
Poarch Identity - Ep 66
August 16, 2022 08:00 - 58 minutesOn today's episode, Jessica interviews Dr. Kelly Fayard (Poarch Band of Creek Indians), Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Denver. Jessica and Kelly dive into Poarch identity from a variety of different angles. She discusses how different historic events influenced Poarch identity in sometimes unexpected ways and where the Poarch Creek fit in with larger conversations about Indigenous identity. We also talk about strategies for creating an inclusive and safe classroom, ...
Indigenous Led Cultural Resource Management and Heritage Companies - Ep 65
July 19, 2022 08:00 - 1 hourOn today's episode, Jessica hosts a panel of Indigenous Cultural Resource Management and Heritage company leaders. The panel includes Dr. Ashley Spivey (Pamukey Indian Tribe), Executive Director of Kenah Consulting (Heritage Voices Episode 43), Desireé Martinez (Gabrileño-Tongva), President of Cogstone Resource Management and Tongva Tribal Archaeologist (Heritage Voices Episodes 9, 17, 46), Jeremy Begay (Diné), Carrizo Archaeological Group, and Steve DeRoy (Buffalo Clan, Anishinaabe/Saulteau...
Indigenous Education, Climate Change, and Technologies of Care - Ep 64
June 21, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBOn today's episode, Jessica interviews Dr. Clint Carroll, Associate Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ ᎡᎲᎢ (Cherokee Nation Citizen). Jessica and Clint discuss his interdisciplinary community based work with the Cherokee Nation. He describes how the history of colonialism has challenged Cherokee relationships with the land, but also how the Cherokee Nation has sustained or reforme...
Digging to the Other Side Podcast - Ep 63
May 17, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBOn today’s podcast, Jessica hosts the crew of the Digging to the Other Side Podcast. We talk about what got them all interested in archaeology, how the podcast was created, what topics they cover, and why it is important to have a podcast on archaeology and related topics across the Americas through the perspectives of Asian hyphenated archaeologists. Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from ...
From Researched to Researcher - One Indigenous Archaeologist's Journey through Academia - Ep 62
April 19, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 84.6 MBOn today’s podcast, Jessica hosts Dr. Ora Marek-Martinez (Diné, Nez Perce, and Hopi), Director of Northern Arizona University’s Office of Native American Initiatives and the Native American Cultural Center and Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department. They discuss Dr. Marek-Martinez’s journey to become an anthropologist and negotiating different understandings of anthropology between the different cultures she was raised in. Discussions also include how to improve anthropo...
Decolonizing the Museum of Us - Ep 61
March 15, 2022 08:00 - 53 minutes - 73.1 MBOn today’s podcast Jessica interviews Kara Vetter, Director of Cultural Resources at the Museum of Us, and Eva Trujillo (Siny ‘Iipay, Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians), UCSD’s Repatriation Coordinator and Museum of Us Board Trustee). This conversation is a deep dive into the Museum of Us’ Decolonization efforts. First, we talk about the colonial history of the museum and the impetus of the decolonization efforts. Then we move into the four guiding principles they are using to do ...
Bonus: Redrawing Boundaries episode from the Sapiens Podcast - Ep 60.1
March 01, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 42.6 MBOn today’s podcast, we have a special bonus episode for you all courtesy of the creators of Sapiens: A Podcast for Everything Human. In season four of Sapiens: A Podcast for Everything Human, hosts Yoli Ngandali and Dr. Ora Marek-Martinez interview Black and Indigenous Archaeologists to uncover our shared histories. Sapiens has agreed to let us share their episode, Redrawing Boundaries, which features Dr. Ayana Flewellan, who was our guest on the last episode of Heritage Voices. If ...
Historical Archaeology for the Future - Ep 60
February 15, 2022 09:00 - 54 minutes - 75 MBOn today’s podcast Jessica interviews Dr. Ayana Omilade Flewellen (they/she), Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. Through Dr. Flewellen’s work in historical archaeology of the African Diaspora focusing on the era of Enslavement and post-emancipation, we talk about how the way people, in this case Black women, dress and adorn themselves and how those practices are shaped by larger factors, including racism and sexism. We a...
Identity and Repatriation - Ep 59
January 18, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 93 MBOn today’s podcast Jessica interviews Dr. Joe Stahlman (Tuscarora descent), Director of Seneca Nation’s Seneca-Iroquois National Museum-Onöhsagwë:de' Culture Center and Seneca Nation’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office. Joe takes us through his career journey, including what it’s like to direct both a museum and a THPO office. Along the way we discuss both race and identity in the field of Anthropology, in Indigenous communities, and in society at large. We close out with discussi...
Land Acknowledgements and Catching Up with Anna Cordova - Ep 58
December 22, 2021 09:00 - 57 minutes - 79.7 MBOn today’s podcast Jessica catches up with Heritage Voices Episode 8 guest Anna Cordova, Lead Archaeologist for the city of Colorado Springs (although, to be clear, she is not representing the city with this interview). Anna is also Chairman on the Board of Trustees of the non-profit Jessica co-founded, Living Heritage Research Council. First, we talk about what Anna has been up to since her episode, including her role on the award winning Palmer trash discovery archaeology project ...
Perishable Artifacts and Tribally Driven Archaeology - Ep 57
November 16, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBOn today’s podcast Jessica interviews Dr. Edward Jolie (Oglala Lakota and Hodulgee Muscogee), the new Clara Lee Tanner Associate Curator of Ethnology at the Arizona State Museum and Associate Professor at School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. We talk about perishable materials, such as textiles, baskets, nets, and footwear, and why they are understudied, how they offer unique insights into the past, and what they can teach us about diversity and continuity both within...
Indigenous Mapping: The One Holding the Pen Tells the Story - Ep 56
October 19, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 94 MBOn today’s podcast Jessica interviews Steve DeRoy (Buffalo Clan, Anishinaabe/Saulteaux, Ebb and Flow First Nation), co-founder, director and past president of The Firelight Group and founder of the Indigenous Mapping Workshop. Steve and Jessica do a deep dive into Indigenous mapping. How does one Indigenize mapping, why is that important, and what are some of the ethics involved? We also discuss the 2021 Indigenous Mapping Workshop coming up November 1-5, 2021 as well as ongoing res...
Redefining Tribal Archaeology - Ep 55
September 21, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBOn today’s podcast Jessica interviews Dr. Martina Dawley, Senior Archaeologist with the Hualapai Nation’s Department of Cultural Resources (HDCR) in Peach Springs, Arizona. First we discuss her early work in CRM in the 80s and 90s and the empowerment of getting her degrees in American Indian Studies. She also discusses the challenges of working in a museum setting and how museums and other organizations can work to be more inclusive. Finally we look at what the job of a tribal archa...
Kwatsáan Voices, Kwatsáan Views - Ep 54
August 24, 2021 08:00 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBOn 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...
Methods in Indigenous Archaeology - Ep 53
July 20, 2021 08:00 - 59 minutes - 82 MBOn 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...
Anti-Colonial Digital Archaeology in Canada and India - Ep 52
June 15, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 85 MBToday’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 t...
Language, Community, and Context - Ep 51
May 24, 2021 08:00 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MBToday’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 ev...
Native Youth and Land Based Education - Ep 50
April 20, 2021 08:00 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MBOn 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 develop...
Reclaiming Culture Through Archaeology - Ep 49
March 16, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 66.6 MBToday’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...
Heritage, Tourism, and Race - Ep 48
February 16, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBToday’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 div...
National Park Service Native American Affairs Program - Ep 47
January 26, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBOn 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 he...
Protecting the Honuukvetam [Ancestors] - Ep 46
December 15, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 85.5 MBOn 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 cultu...
Maori Homes and Communities - Ep 45
November 17, 2020 09:00 - 53 minutes - 73.1 MBOn 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 toge...
Convergent Migrations of Humans and Monarch Butterflies - Ep 44
October 20, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 86 MBOn this month’s podcast we have Dr. Columba Gonzalez-Duarte. Dr. Gonzalez-Duarte is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University. We discuss Dr. Gonzalez-Duarte’s career studying the relationships between humans and monarch butterflies across North America. What can monarch butterflies tell us about the distribution of power, Indigenous Knowledge, internet communities, the North America Free Trade Agreement agricultural mod...
Tribal Capacity Building to Support Sovereignty - Ep 43
September 23, 2020 00:46 - 1 hour - 96.5 MBOn this month’s podcast we have Dr. Ashley Spivey, Executive Director of Kenah Consulting and enrolled member of the Pamukey Indian Tribe. We start out talking about Ashley continuing her family legacy of maintaining her community’s heritage through material culture. Dr. Spivey also talks about the recent recognition of 7 Virginia tribes despite Virginia’s *paper genocide* and their historic erasure. While normally only recognized related to the first English settlements in America ...
Sovereign Stories - Ep 42
August 18, 2020 08:00 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBOn this months’s podcast we have LT Kayla F. DeVault (Shawnee and Anishinaabe), Engineer and Project Manager at Indian health facilities. Kayla’s wide ranging experience and education has centered on Anthropology, STEM, and Indigeneity. She is the host of the You-tube channel, Sovereign Stories, which breaks down Indigenous themed topics into easy to understand and fun short videos. We talk about advocacy more generally as well as a wide range of other topics including cultural heri...
Collecting Oral Histories in Indian Country - Ep 41
July 21, 2020 08:00 - 56 minutes - 77.4 MBOn this months’s podcast we have Aaron Brien (Apsáalooke), a member of the Night Hawk Dance Society and faculty in Salish Kootenai College’s Tribal Historic Preservation and Native American Studies programs and Dr. Shandin Pete (Salish/Diné), Director of the Indigenous Research Center at Salish Kootenai College. We talk briefly about how the two got connected and the development of the Indigenous Research Center, but mostly we chat for two of the three segments about collecting oral...
Indigenous Land Management - Ep 40
June 17, 2020 08:00 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MBOn today’s episode Jessica hosts Natasha Myhal, a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and a PhD candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at CU Boulder with an area of focus in Geography. Through the lens of Natasha’s academic and personal journey, Natasha and Jessica discuss community based research, traditional ecological knowledge/gikendaasowin (knowledge in Ojibwe), and ethnobotany. They further discuss the challenges of working across disciplines and h...
Cultural Landscapes and Indigenous Connections in Aotearoa New Zealand - Ep 39
May 19, 2020 08:00 - 51 minutes - 70.8 MBOn today’s episode Jessica hosts Dr. Diane Menzies (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongowhakaata, & Aitanga a Mahaki), Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit and consultant on cultural landscape and Indigenous issues for Landcult Ltd. We discuss Landscape Architecture, western professional mono-culture, and how decolonization can lead to better cities. Dr. Menzies speaks to differing perspectives on landscapes as well as addressing different perspectives when mediating conflict relating to the...
Indigenous Australian Archaeology - Ep 38
April 21, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBOn today’s episode Jessica hosts Dr. Chris Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Australian Studies and Archaeology at Flinders University. In 2017, Dr. Wilson was the first Indigenous Australian to be awarded a PhD in Archaeology. Dr. Wilson tells how the discovery of family history/geneaology, family and community involvement, and the archaeology of whaling all tied together within his Ph.D research. Throughout the episode he also shows how the archaeological research being done i...
Heritage Media Conference Presentation - Ep 37
January 21, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBThis is the presentation that Jessica and Lyle gave for the SAAs in 2019 and The Heritage Media Conference in 2019. It’s a great overview of the Heritage Voices Podcast and includes a silde presentation below. Links Companion slide presentation Contact Jessica [email protected] @livingheritageA @LivingHeritageResearchCouncil Lyle [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote Digital Marketing Course TeePublic Timeular
BONUS : APN 5 Year Anniversary - A Message from Jessica Yaquinto
December 20, 2019 19:28 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBThis is a bonus episode to celebrate the 5 year anniversary of the Archaeology Podcast Network. Jessica Yaquinto is an ethnographer and deals in tribal consultation. The podcast includes topics on mediating between tribes, community based participatory research, and tribes' perspectives of anthropology. In this special episode, she talks about creating the Heritage Voices podcast, how she started and what it’s like being on the network. You can follow Jessica on Twitter or visit...
Yakama Tribal Archaeology - Ep 36
December 17, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 86.5 MBOn today’s episode Jessica hosts Jon Shellenberger (Yakama), Yakama Nation Tribal Archaeologist. We talk first about his journey to become an archaeologist and ethnographer. In the second segment we talk about the work of the Yakama Nation to defend their inherent and treaty rights to fish, to protect tribal members from being prosecuted for having eagle and migratory bird feathers, and to re-establish their buffalo hunts in what is now Yellowstone National Park. Finally we talk abo...
Indigenous Archaeology as Practice - Ep 35
November 19, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBOn today’s episode Jessica hosts Dr. Kisha Supernant (Métis), Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. You may remember Dr. Supernant from Heritage Voices Episode 30 on Cultural Landscapes. Dr. Supernant talks about how the indigenous experience in Canada differs from that in the US, including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We also talk about Métis identity and how it has been largely misunderstood. Finally, we talk about archaeology and identity, ...
Planting Seeds for Transformation in Cultural Heritage Management - Ep 34
October 15, 2019 13:25 - 50 minutes - 69 MBOn today’s episode Jessica hosts Applied Archaeology International’s Bobby Bearheart (Ojibwa), Tess Lynston (lineage of Yampa and Bri Bri, Iszaac Webb (Wadandi), Genevieve Carey, and Dave Guilfoyle during their cultural exchange road trip across the US Southwest. We also talk about a previous cultural exchange trip in Australia. An interesting conversation looking at the similarities and differences between the US and Australia, including NAGPRA and repatriation, as well as how we ...
Coast Salish Archaeology - Ep 33
September 17, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBOn today’s episode Jessica hosts Karen Rose Thomas, who is finishing up her Masters at the University of British Columbia. We talk about being a First Nations field representative, her experience as an Indigenous student, and the colonial nature of anthropology. We also talk about her experiences on Simon Fraser University’s Aboriginal Reconciliation Council and as the Tsleil-Waututh representative on the Board of Directors for the Museum of Vancouver. We close out with a fun member...
Anthropology of the US-Mexico Border - Ep 32
August 20, 2019 08:00 - 55 minutes - 76.1 MBOn today’s episode Jessica hosts Dr. Jason De León, professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. De León talks about how he found himself at a cross roads with traditional archaeology and completely changed his career to better match his values. We discuss his work with the Undocumented Migration Project, conducting archaeological, ethnographic, and forensic anthropology methods to better understand the U.S.-Mexico border, as well...
Reclaiming Indigenous Histories and the Indigenous Paleolithic - Ep31
July 16, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 97.1 MBOn today’s episode Jessica hosts Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree-Metis), Associate Professor at Algoma University. We especially focus on the Indigenous paleolithic and how Dr. Steeves is showing that it was very different than how it is presented by the field of archaeology. We also talk about the Bering Strait theory and why the academy is so resistant to that narrative being challenged. In the beginning of the episode Dr. Steeves walks us through her career, including some incidents t...
Cultural Landscapes Panel SAA2019 - Ep 30
June 18, 2019 08:00 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MBOn today’s episode Jessica hosts a panel at the 2019 Society of American Archaeology conference on Cultural Landscapes. Panelists include Dr. Kisha Supernant (Métis) Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, Wade Campbell (Diné), Ph.D. student at Harvard, Michelle La Pena, attorney, writer, and former Pit River Tribal Councilwoman, Dr. Sean Gantt, Director of Education at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Kassie Rippee, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer of the Coquille I...
A Journey to Ancient Pawneeland - Ep 29
May 21, 2019 08:00 - 56 minutes - 77 MBOn today’s podcast Jessica hosts Roger Echo-Hawk, a writer / artist, and a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. We discussed his role in the origin story of what became Indigenous archaeology – the study of oral tradition; the unfolding racial Indian repatriation movement; the interfacing of archaeology and Indian Country; and the history of race and the rethinking of racial identity systems. LinksRoger Echo-Hawk on ancient Pawnee history: The Enchanted Mirror: Ancient Pawne...
The Archaeological Spectrum - Ep 28
April 23, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 86 MBOn today’s podcast Jessica hosts Rebecca Heidenreich (Diné), a graduate student at Arizona State University (and Jessica even refrained from making any Sun Devils jokes!) studying GIS. Rebecca talks about her experiences in both academia and CRM and how the two differ. She also talks about what it’s like navigating indigenous and scientific perspectives. It’s a very personal interview and an important listen for anyone trying to better understand what it’s like to be an indigenous a...
Central Plains Archaeology: Plain and Simple - Ep 27
March 19, 2019 08:00 - 57 minutes - 78.6 MBOn today’s podcast Jessica hosts Carlton Shield Chief Gover, a PhD student at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. We talked about the unique history of Oklahoma and particularly the Pawnee and Arikara Nations. We talk about the challenges of when oral history and archaeology don’t agree and what it’s like to work in academia, CRM, and in tribal settings. Finally we talk about where he would love to see the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma’s TH...
Archaeology Outreach in local Maya communities in the Yucatan - Ep 26
February 19, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBDrs. Batún and Landry-Montes have been working on archaeology outreach in local Maya communities in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. They have been working with local middle school teachers to teach students about cenotes, underground freshwater aquifers, and their cultural, archaeological, and ecological importance.
Technology - Episode 25
January 15, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBOn today’s podcast Jessica hosts a panel on technology in the Heritage/Cultural Resource Management fields. The panelists discuss how they use technology in their work, the positives and negatives of technology for tribes and heritage preservation, and tribes and Indigenous Archaeologist’s innovative adaptations of technology to serve their needs.
Museums, Representation, and Intersectionality - Episode 24
December 18, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBOn today’s podcast we have Brandon Castle, a Senior in Fort Lewis College’s Anthropology Department, who has also worked at the Totem Heritage Center in Alaska, the Center of Southwest Studies in Colorado, the Field Museum of Natural History in Illinois, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He also discusses his work for Fort Lewis College’s Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. Brandon shares ideas on improving representation, intersectionality, collaboration, an...
Salish-Kootenai College’s Tribal Historic Preservation Program - Ep 23
November 20, 2018 09:00 - 1 hourWe talk about the blending of ethnography and archaeology within indigenous archaeology, as well as the identity challenges that many young Native Americans face and how indigenous archaeology can be one part of a holistic picture that can give young people a sense of who they are and hope for the future.