Co-creating a Cultural Heritage Curriculum with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma’s Historic Preservation Office Using Archaeology as a Tool

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Collaborative archaeology fosters relationships between communities and archaeologists to create new perspectives of the past. This paper examines the collaborative process between archaeologists from the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma’s Historic Preservation Office and myself, aiming to develop a curriculum focusing on Choctaw cultural heritage utilizing archaeology as a tool for Oklahoma history classes. In Oklahoma history classrooms Indigenous voices are rarely represented hindering students’ connection to the past. Through embracing Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), this project outlined the collaborative process used to create a curriculum focused on Choctaw cultural heritage. This paper seeks to provide new insights into collaborative archaeology and archaeology education, and to offer guidance to those interested in pursuing similar projects.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 52357