Who Does Cultural Resource Management Archaeology Serve?: A Perspective From Ontario, Canada

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cultural Heritage Laws and Policies, Political Economy, and the Community Importance of Archaeological Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

CRM archaeology is often heavily regulated and completed with the purported goal of recording and preserving significant heritage resources that would be destroyed by development activities. While these goals are well meaning, it is rarely discussed who we are saving these resources for and do our efforts meet the needs of the Descendent communities that are connected to these histories are tied to. This presentation examines the current relationship between Indigenous communities and CRM archaeologists in Ontario, Canada, and how the regulatory environment serves to simultaneously invite Descendent community participation in fieldwork, while excluding them from having a meaningful role in archaeological projects.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• Cultural Heritage Laws and Policies, Political Economy, and the Community Importance of Archaeological Sites

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