For this episode of Heritage Voices, Jessica Yaquinto speaks with Charlotta Hillerdal (University of Aberdeen), Jaqueline Nalikutaar Cleveland (Native Village of Kwinhagak), Lonny Alaskuk Strunk (Native Village of Kwinhagak), and Alice Watterson (University of Iceland). The team explains how climate change was causing artifacts to erode out on the shoreline, so the Native Village of Quinhagak (Kwinhagak) requested an archaeological excavation so that their heritage would be documented. They describe how what would happen to those artifacts and how to educate the community and larger public about their heritage remained a constant concern and area of discussion. The team described the process of creating this public education resource and how they conveyed the sense of place and focused on incorporating the language into the digital exhibit.

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Nunalleq Digital Museum: multi-vocal narration of a Yup'ik past
• Nunalleq Digital Museum
• Nunalleq: Archaeological Excavation and Conservation Lab
• Nunalleq 2024
• Rick receives Friends of First Alaskans Ted Stevens Award
• Nunalleq Education Resource
• Yugtun
• How Did You Live? Writing A Song for Nunalleq
• Climate & Nunalleq
• Ellavut Cimirtuq (Our World Is Changing) – TrimTab Media

Jessica

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This Heritage Voices episode features a few members of a session from the 2024 Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting in Santa Fe. Today’s guests included Dr. Lindsay Montgomery (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto St. George campus), Dr. Kalani Heinz (Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at California State University Northridge), and Dusti Bridges (Ph.D. Student in Anthropology at Cornell University). We talked about some of the ways their session and the TAG Santa Fe meeting took some different approaches than other conferences and sessions. The three of them then broke down the concept of Indigenous Futurities for Jessica and showed how this concept shows up in different ways across the work that the three of them do. For those of you who are educators, discussions of working with students are also woven throughout this conversation.

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• North American Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) Previous Meetings website
• Dr. Laura Harjo's Spiral to the Stars book
• PIEAM Museum in Long Beach, CA
• Hayden Haynes’ (Dusti Bridge’s Colleague) Carvings Website
• Story maps of Alternative Histories of American History (created by Dr. Kalani's Students)
• Dusti Bridges' Cornell Academic Page
• California State University Northridge American Indian Studies Faculty Page with Dr. Kalani Heinz Bio
• Dr. Lindsay Montgomery's Professional Website
• ‘We’re in the Midst of an Authoritarian Takeover’
• Archaeology, Heritage, and Reactionary Populism (Cultural Heritage Studies) (Volume edited by Randall McGuire and Alfredo González-Ruibal, with contributions from Dr. Lindsay Montgomery)

Jessica

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On today’s episode Jessica hosts Dr. Jason De León, professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. De León talks about how he found himself at a cross roads with traditional archaeology and completely changed his career to better match his values. We discuss his work with the Undocumented Migration Project, conducting archaeological, ethnographic, and forensic anthropology methods to better understand the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as his Hostile Terrain exhibition. We talk about the complicated ethics involved, civil disobedience in the face of injustice, representation, and what we can all do in the face of this structural violence. A fascinating look into how to use anthropology to address current issues in a new way.

• Jason Patrick De Leon website
• Dr. De Leon’s Twitter: @jason_p_deleon
• Hostile Terrain
• Undocumented Migration Project
• The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Jason’s Book)
• Links to the Radiolab Border Trilogy featuring Dr. De León
• Article about how companies are profiting from the detention camps

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