Kisha Supernant

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.

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.

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 🏺
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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.

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...

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.

And stay tuned - we will be developing the papers into a publication so we can share it with the world!

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.

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.

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.

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. 🧪🏺

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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/

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...

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:
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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...

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.

“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...

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.

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

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.

📣 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

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

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

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...