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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 12d

In Calgary on Oct 4? IPIA PhD Candidate Dawn Wambold will be speaking at the Confluence Symposium, about using NWMP memoirs to identify and interpret Métis archaeological sites. The symposium's focus is on the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the NWMP at Fort Calgary. Tickets available below: 🏺

The Confluence Symposium — The Confluence

Share meaningful ideas about history, Indigenous experiences and colonial power as part of The Confluence Symposium on October 3-5.

www.theconfluence.ca

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 19d

Heading to the Prairie Political Science Association Conference in Banff this weekend? You can catch several of our scholars presenting on Saturday, as part of the Indigenous Relationality Workshop! Find the schedule here:
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2025 PPSA & IRW Conference Program

The PPSA fosters the study of political science, showcasing political science about the Prairies through scholarship by political scientists on the Prairies and beyond.

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 21d

Join us in congratulating IPIA scholar Maria Nelson, who yesterday successfully completed her Masters degree! Congratulations, Maria! 🎉🎉

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ALT: a man applauds with the words way to go super proud of you behind him

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 21d

Our latest newletter was just sent out, with some scholar updates and upcoming events we'll be participating in! Interested in getting our quarterly newsletter delivered to your inbox? You can sign up here: 🏺
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How To Get Involved

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 23d

ICYMI: give this excellent new paper a read! 🏺

Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 29d

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 🏺

Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones” | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones” - Volume 90 Issue 3

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 29d

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 🏺

Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones” | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones” - Volume 90 Issue 3

www.cambridge.org

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Aug 27

Join us in a big congratulations to IPIA PhD candidate Dawn Wambold, who has been awarded the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship! 🎉🎉🎉
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Award Winning Graduate Student in the Department of Anthropology

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Aug 13

If you're in the St. Albert area on August 21st, you can join IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant for the Trash Talking event, to learn more about the results of the 2023 IPIA field school and what it tells us about the Métis presence in St. Albert. Tickets are $5, see the link for more info! 🏺

Métis Trash Talking: An Archeological Footprint in St. Albert

From trash to treasures, bones to beads, there is always more to learn from the land beneath our feet. In May and June 2023, the University of Alberta’s Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archeology ...

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Aug 6

Check it out! IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social and IPIA PhD Candidate Dawn Wambold @rdwambold.bsky.social were both featured in a new issue of Futurm Magazine (beginning pg. 76), where they talk about the IPIA and Indigenous-engaged archaeology 🏺

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Jul 30

Check it out: former IPIA scholars Lyndsay Dagg and Dr. Liam Wadsworth are co-authors on a great new paper about the John Ware homestead, a homestead belonging to one of the prairies first Black residents. 🏺

Exploring Black History of the Western Canadian Prairies: Community-Engaged Archaeology at the John Ware Homestead (EePo-29) - International Journal of Historical Archaeology

By preserving and celebrating Black heritage sites and telling their stories, archaeology can revise history in a way that includes the stories of the diverse individuals and communities who contribut...

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Jul 17

Check it out: the newest episode of the True Canadians podcast, "Harrison Ford Need Not Apply," host David Wylynko talks to IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant about the EMITA project and the need to upend a history of non-Indigenous academics dominating the tale of Indigenous history 🏺

Harrison Ford Need Not Apply

The True Canadians · Episode

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Jul 16

If you're in the Edmonton area, Métis Trash Talking: An Archeological Footprint in St. Albert is back, on July 24th and August 21st!

IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant will be sharing the follow-up research from the 2023 IPIA field school and earlier excavations.

Register at the link below:
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Métis Trash Talking: An Archeological Footprint in St. Albert

From trash to treasures, bones to beads, there is always more to learn from the land beneath our feet. In May and June 2023, the University of Alberta’s Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archeology ...

www.artsandheritage.ca

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Jul 15

The IPIA was featured in episode 7 of Crash Course: Native American History, hosted by Che Jim, among other groups working to decolonize archaeology!

Episode 7 discusses the harmful legacy of anthropology and archaeology and explores the ways in which these fields are righting past wrongs. 🏺

The Real Impacts of Archaeology on Native Americans: Ep 7 of Crash Course Native American History

YouTube video by CrashCourse

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Jun 25

The Indigenous Cultural Heritage Rights Task Force has submitted a statement to the office of the Prime Minister & the Quality of Life & Well-Being Committee urging the implementation of UNDRIP Action Plan Measure 98, re: the repatriation of Ancestors & cultural belongings. You can read it here: 🏺

CMA | Canadian Museums Association

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Jun 4

Check it out! IPIA Scholar Dr. Liam Wadsworth was interviewed about his work prior to his convocation next week. Congratulations, Liam!
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Class of ‘25: Using community-driven archaeology to explore Indigenous removal

Liam Wadsworth is an Anthropology PhD graduate who seeks to amplify once-silenced voices

www.ualberta.ca

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Liam Wadsworth @mapsworth.bsky.social · Jun 3

A fun interview write-up about my work in advance of my convocation next week! www.ualberta.ca/en/arts/facu...

Class of ‘25: Using community-driven archaeology to explore Indigenous removal

Liam Wadsworth is an Anthropology PhD graduate who seeks to amplify once-silenced voices

www.ualberta.ca

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · May 13

Check it out! IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social was interviewed for a new episode of CBC Ideas! Read the article and find the link to listen to the episode below:
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Métis archaeologist transforms her field from 'grave robber' to 'grave finder' | CBC Radio

Metis archaeologist Kisha Supernant helps Indigenous communities search for unmarked graves at former residential school sites. But Supernant is not just doing archaeology — she’s changing the way it’...

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Solène MG @somag.bsky.social · May 3

Extremely satisfied with the environmental archaeology session I hosted at the #CAA2025 ! Beautiful range of papers about charcoal, seeds, soils, animal bones & DNA. Especially happy with the fact that many presenters were graduate students or ECRs @can-arch.bsky.social

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · May 2

If you're at the BC Studies conference today, you can catch IPIA PhD student Steph Halmhofer talking about some of her research at 10:30!

Steph Halmhofer, Big Archaeology @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · May 2

It's a beautiful morning at UBC for the first day of the BC Studies conference!

Sunny skies over a green lawn and rose garden

Sunny skies looking down a tree-lined pedestrian road with university buildings on both sides

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · May 2

Check it out! IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant was interviewed for UAlberta's Social Sciences and Humanities podcast! You can find the link below:
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SSH: The Podcast

www.ualberta.ca

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · May 1

Are you at the CAA conference this week and curious about environmental archaeology? Check out the session hosted by IPIA PhD Candidate @somag.bsky.social on Saturday! 🏺

canadianarchaeology.com/caa/annual-m...

Recent developments in Canadian environmental archaeology

Environmental archaeology, or the study of human-environment interactions, is a core component of many archaeological projects across Canada. Methods, such as zooarchaeology, palaeoethnobotany,

canadianarchaeology.com

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Apr 28

This evening! Get your votes cast and then join us online or in-person to learn about our Guide to Good Relations. Links below to learn more about the guide and the event! 🏺

Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Mar 26

Mark your calendars! On April 28th we'll be hosting our third hybrid Speaker Series event, about the IPIA's Guide to Good Relations. Free to attend but registration required for both online and in-person 🏺
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Putting Principles into Practice: Introducing the IPIA Guide to Good Relations - Mon, Apr 28, 2025

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Apr 24

This is next week! Registration is still available, check the link below:

Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Mar 26

Mark your calendars! On April 28th we'll be hosting our third hybrid Speaker Series event, about the IPIA's Guide to Good Relations. Free to attend but registration required for both online and in-person 🏺
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Putting Principles into Practice: Introducing the IPIA Guide to Good Relations - Mon, Apr 28, 2025

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · Apr 16

Congratulations to our IPIA scholars @mapsworth.bsky.social, @cultarchaeo.bsky.social, and @archaeomapper.bsky.social, whose article "Saying what we mean, meaning what we say" is within the top 10% most-read 2023 articles in Archaeological Prospection! You can read it (open access) below! 🏺

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...

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · Apr 10

New piece out today: Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives have a Residential School Denialism Problem: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives have a residential school denialism problem

It’s time for Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives to move on from Aaron Gunn and leave residential school denialism behind once and for all. If the Conservatives are truly serious about “common sen...

canadiandimension.com

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