Indigenous & community archaeologies

Question 1

Bruce Trigger

Answer 1

canadian archaeologist
advocated a First Nations position after years of colonialism and rejection
he developed 3 stages in the relationship between archs and FN

Question 2

Trigger and 20th c alternatives

Answer 2

while archaeology turned inwards with science, Trigger saw an alternative with a shift away from notion of discrete past
unrelated to present, to one in
which prehistory considered continuous with (inseparable) history

Question 3

past 20 years change with Indigenous archaeology

Answer 3

still very few Indignous archs but gov is working to resolve arch conflicts that affect Indigenous groups

Question 4

Robert McGhee

Answer 4

seems a little racist
champions european claims to sovereignty in North America and disregards FN accounts and oral history