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In 1871, the last owner of the Millars Plantation Estate on Eleuthera, Bahamas left a portion of the former plantation acreage to the descendants of her former slaves and servants. In the intervening 175 years since emancipation in the Bahamas and the 125 years since the property transferred to "generation land", south Eleuthera has experienced a series of economic transformations and demographic transitions. Despite these changes, the Millars descendant community maintains their connection to...
Creating Collaborative Learning Opportunities for Indigenous Youth with Archaeology-based Environmental Education (2016)
Midwest archaeologists and Native American communities have recently initiated successful community-based and collaborative research endeavors. Through such collaborations, tribal leaders have expressed an interest in providing ways for youth in their communities to engage in contemporary cultural and natural resources work to inspire future stewardship and introduce potential professional pathways. Many archaeologists are in a unique position to promote heritage and preservation through...
Creating Space for a Place: The River Street Public Archaeology Project (2016)
Community-based public archaeology projects seek to reclaim aspects of the past while addressing the needs and concerns of local communities. Sometimes this work places archaeologists in a position where we are forced to tack between the desire to conduct original research and the need to simultaneously navigate complex economic, social, and political constructs. All of this takes place in spaces, geographic, systemic, and paradigmatic, that both constrain and enable archaeological research. The...
Learning about Learning: A Community-Based Approach to Childhood Pottery Making in Partnership with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2021)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project is grounded in a partnership with the Mississaugas of the Credit First nation to apply community-based archaeology in southern Ontario that focusses on learning about learning. There are two main goal of this project. First, we plan to bring together Indigenous methodologies and archaeological study to teach youths how to learn ancestral pottery making. This involves the integration...