Indigenous Archaeology in Two Hemispheres Approaches to Inuit and First Nations Pasts in Canada, Australia and Greenland

Introduction. Lisa Rankin, Oscar Moro Abadía and Emilie Dotte-Sarout

PART 1. HISTORICAL APPROACHES: THE DECOLONIZATION OF INUIT AND FIRST NATIONS ARCHAEOLOGICAL HISTORIES

1. An untold story: Early Indigenous involvement in the development of Australian archaeology, c.1830- 1960

Matthew Spriggs, Lynette Russell

2. From ‘Primitive’ to ‘Indigenous’: Some comments on the history of Inuit and Aboriginal Arts,

Oscar Moro Abadía, Susan Lowish, Bryn Tapper

3. At the crossroads. Arctic Inuit, Aboriginal peoples of Australia and European prehistoric humans in the creation of "primitive religion" at the turn of the 20th century

Eduardo Palacio-Pérez

4. Russian Contributions to First Nations Australian Archaeology in Context, From the 1700s to the Present

Hillary Howes

5. Archaeological and rock art research in the Northwest Kimberley. A history of engagements, disruptions, and continuities

Martin Porr.

PART 2. CURRENT CHALLENGES TO INUIT AND FIRST NATIONS ARCHAEOLOGIES: FROM DECOLONIZATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE

6. Geographical Archaeology and Community Relations on the Quebec Lower North Shore   William Fitzhugh

7. "Don’t wait until it has gone”: GunaiKurnai - led research at small, damaged and vulnerable coastal archaeological sites threatened by climate change and rising seas, GunaiKurnai Country, southeastern Australia

Rogers, David et al.

 8. Indigenous archaeology: Meeting the needs of thethe people whose history we study while reaching the objectives of social scientists

Reginald Auger, Nicholas Shattler 

PART 3. ESTABLISHING GOOD RELATIONS: ISSUES IN INUIT AND FIRST NATIONS DATA SOVEREIGNTY

9. Changing approaches to the management of Labrador Inuit material culture

Jamie Brake

 10. Legacies of Colonial Curation and Museum Collections from Nunatsiavut, Labrador Laura Kelvin, Dreide Elliott

 11. Control Shift: Relationships, Research and Heritage Management in Hebron, Labrador Michelle Davies, Lena Onalik

 12. On Equal Footing: Understanding the Benefits and Challenges of Partnered Archaeological Research with Inuit Governments

Lisa Rankin, Belinda Webb

13. Negotiating peaceful relations and restoring wellbeing: First nations (re)building and ‘Country’

Steve Hemming, Daryle Rigney, Amy Della-Sale, Shaun Berg and Cressida Fforde

CONCLUSION: INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES

14. Towards an ethical archaeology: bridging the gap between Indigenous knowledge and archaeological practice in Kalaallit Nunaat

Kirstine Møller, Randi Sørensen Johansen, and Angutinnguaq Olsen 

15. Responsibilities when researching your personal totem

Emily Poeline-Hunter

Afterward by Claire Smith

Biography

Lisa K. Rankin is Professor and University Research Chair of Northern Indigenous and Community Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada). She has worked closely with the Inuit and Inuit descendant communities of Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut for nearly 25 years. As a social archaeologist, her publications focus on Inuit identity and shifting power relations during early interactions between Inuit and Europeans. She was the director of the Tradition and Transition Research Partnership.

Oscar Moro Abadía is Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada). He specializes in the study of Pleistocene art. He is the co-editor of Speaking Materials. Sources for the History of Archaeology (with Christoph Huth, Complutum, 2013). In 2020, he co-edited with Professor González-Morales a special issue on Pleistocene and Holocene arts for the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. In 2021, together with Martin Porr, he co-edited Ontologies of Rock Art: Images, Relational Approaches and Indigenous Knowledges for Routledge. His research on Paleolithic and the history of science has been published in Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Journal of Archaeological Research, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, World Art, History of Human Sciences, History of Science, Journal of Anthropological Research, Journal of Social Archaeology, and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

Emilie Dotte-Sarout is Senior Lecturer in archaeology at the University of Western Australia. Her most recent research project, Pacific Matildas (2020-2024), has focused on the hidden contributions of women in the history of Pacific archaeology, building on previous work she undertook as part of the project Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific (Australian National University, 2015-2020). She was first editor of the double French and English volumes published in 2020 and 2021 Towards a History of Pacific Prehistory: Historiographical Approaches to Francophone Archaeology in Oceania, has published several articles and co-edited a number of journal special issues on the history of archaeology, as well as contributions to the 2022 international exhibition catalogue Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania.