The Archaeology Podcast Network is taking a break for the holiday season. In the meantime, please enjoy this encore episode. It’s a favorite of ours! Happy holidays!

On today’s episode, Jessica hosts Dr. Richard Meyers (Oglala Lakota), Tribal Relations Specialist at the Black Hills National Forest and the former Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor at Oglala Lakota College. Richie joined as part of the panel on Episode 73: Exploring the Ethics in Experimental Archaeology and I knew we needed to have him back to do a one on one episode. We talk about various aspects of identity, as well as the challenges and benefits of working in a variety of types of positions across the field of Anthropology, academia, and federal service. Richie also talks about his current work as a Tribal Relations Specialist and provides important advice for anyone wanting to go into Tribal Relations specifically, but really any form of Anthropology more generally.

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Who Gets To Be An Indian | Richie Meyers | TEDxBrookings
• Native Anthropology, to be a Native Scholar, or a Scholar that is Native: Reviving Ethnography in Indian Country
• What Rez Dogs Mean to the Lakota

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On today’s episode, Jessica chats with Krystiana Krupa (NAGPRA Program Officer for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Blythe Morrison (Collections Manager at BLM Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum and a citizen of the Blackfeet Nation), Jayne-Leigh Thomas (Director of the NAGPRA Office at Indiana University), and Chance Ward (NAGPRA Coordinator for History Colorado; Lakota [Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe]). The panel talks about the 2024 regulation changes to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), including Federal Collection Reporting, Inventory Resubmission Deadlines, and Duty of Care. The discussion spends extra time with Duty of Care’s three main components: a) museums must consult with tribes on how to care for a collection b) deference to tribal knowledge c) access, research, and exhibition is prohibited without consent. The panelists also discuss how they’ve been applying the new regulations and what’s been successful for them, as well as main challenges that they are experienced or heard. Finally, the episode gets into the main questions each panelist has received, how they answer those, and what resources they refer people to (see below!). If you have a question for this panel, send them to jessica@livingheritageanthropology.org and if Jessica receives enough questions, the panel has agreed to do a follow up episode to answer them.

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/92

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Heritage Voices Episode 79 on INSTEP with Chance and Jayne-Leigh
• Intensive NAGPRA Summer Training & Education Program (INSTEP) Web Page
• Intensive NAGPRA Summer Training & Education Program (INSTEP) Facebook Page
• Nationwide NAGPRA Community of Practice (Note that many regions, states, etc. also have their own Communities of Practice.)
• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Regulations (Revised regulations effective January 2024.)
• National NAGPRA YouTube
• National NAGPRA Webinars
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On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Friar Francisco Nahoe and Mata'u Rapu about how a priest and a filmmaker got involved in repatriation efforts for Rapa Nui (Easter Island). We learn how 19th and 20th Century European sheepherding ventures circulated Polynesian crania from Rapa Nui across the world; how UNESCO recognition can harm indigenous communities; the close relationship between environmental protection, cultural heritage, and indigenous rights; and most of all how the Rapanui people themselves provide an outstanding example of resilience in the face of environmental precarity and Euro-American colonization. Finally, we explore the challenges of living up to the leadership and legacy of both ancient ancestors and living elders in the effort to find a collective, multi-generational Polynesian voice.

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/91

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• Eating up Easter
• Eating up Easter on PBS (Amazon)
• Eating up Easter (PBS)
• British museum public access catalogue
• Moai: Contest Objects from the British Museum Collection
• Article about British Museum Employee who Stole Artifacts from Collection
• Another film made by another Rapanui documentary filmmaker, Leo Pakarati, about Hoa Haka Nana Ia.
• Smithsonian Moai
• Stone Figure Head and Shoulders
• Smithsonian to return ancestral remains to Indigenous Australians
• https://www.instagram.com/smrapu/
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On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Dr. Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan (Tohono O'odham Nation Education Development Liaison at Kitt Peak National Observatory; Tohono O’odham from Wa:k Ceksan [the San Xavier District]) about her work fostering relationships between the Tohono O'odham Nation and Kitt Peak National Observatory through tours for Tribal Departments, programs, and schools, serving as a point of contact for tribal members and the Nation as a whole, sharing Tohono O’odham history and culture with general public visitors, and continuing to build on the promises made during the original agreements to lease the land from the Tohono O'odham Nation. Additionally, Dr. Ramon-Sauberan (or Dr. J.) works with the larger Astronomy community on how to be a good neighbor to Indigenous communities. Throughout Dr. J’s career, her focus has always been on providing resources and serving Indigenous communities, from journalism that focused on Indigenous people making a difference in the world to developing her dissertation that centered community voices as a resource on land and water rights in Wa:k Ceksan (the San Xavier District).

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/90

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Kitt peak article
• Kitt Peak National Observatory
• Kitt Peak National Observatory Hosts Open Night for the Tohono O’odham Nation (article)
• Tohono O'odham Community College
• Mission Garden
• Friends of Saguaro National Park
• Arizona Humanities speakers group
• Arizona Humanities Lecture (Video), “Caretakers of the Land: A Story of Farming and Community in San Xavier with Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan”
• Arizona Humanities Lecture (Video), “Food Sovereignty in the Desert: Reclaiming Traditional O’odham Foodways with Dr. Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan”
• NOIRLabAstro Lecture (Video), “Information On The Tohono O'odham History And Culture”
• San Xavier Cooperative Farm
• Tohono O’odham Young Voices Podcast Episode

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On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Dr. Jessica Black (Gwich’in; Associate Vice Chancellor and Associate Professor in the College of Indigenous Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks) and Dr. Courtney Carothers (Professor of Fisheries in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks). Dr. Black and Dr. Carothers discuss their work, alongside student colleagues and Alaska Native peoples, to highlight Indigenous fisheries knowledge, Indigenous fisheries science and governance practices, and the structural inequities that keep Indigenous peoples in Alaska from their deep traditional cultural practices, livelihoods, and relations. All of this deeply relational work lead to the birth of Tamamta (a Yup’ik and Sugpiaq word meaning 'all of us'), an organization focused on connecting Indigenous and Western sciences and supporting graduate students deeply connected with Indigenous communities in Alaska on research around fisheries.

Interested in the Accountable Allies group? Keep an eye on the Tamamta website or sign up for their mailing list for resources that this group has been developing.

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/89

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• Tamamta
• State of Alaska’s Salmon and People (SASAP)
• Aulukluki neqkat: centering care of salmon and relational research in Indigenous fisheries in the Kuskokwim River, Alaska (Esquible et al 2024 article)
• Indigenous peoples and salmon stewardship: a critical relationship (article)
• Indigenizing Salmon Management
• Indigeneity, an alternative worldview: four R's (relationship, responsibility, reciprocity, redistribution) vs. two P's (power and profit). Sharing the journey towards conscious evolution (article by La Donna Harris and Jacqueline Wasilewski)

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On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Tuula Sharma Vassvik (Sámi activist, land protector, musician, podcast host, and freelance contractor in Heritage and Indigenous Methodologies) about their journey through archaeology to Indigenous methodologies and land protection in Sápmi. Tuula’s work focuses on solidarity across cultures and class, as well as community building and future building within Indigenous ways of life. We talk about their time at Standing Rock and how that shaped not only their Masters thesis, but their life trajectory. We also discuss their involvement in protests against wind turbines on reindeer herding areas, the destructive impact of farmed salmon on the coast and coastal Sámi people, as well as topics they have explored with their podcast guests, including Indigenizing queerness. Today’s takeaway: Don’t buy farmed salmon from Norway!

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Tuula’s Podcast: Vuostildanfearánat - Sámi stories of resistance on SoundCloud
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• Arctic Silk Road: Imagining Global Infrastructures and Community Boundaries in Sápmi and the Russian North Project
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• Tuula’s article: VUOIŊŊALAŠVUOHTA—Sámi Spirituality, Yoik and Its Relations
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• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
• Rauna Kuokkanen’s Restructuring Relations: Indigenous Self-Determination, Governance, and Gender
• RiddoDuottarMuseat
• Sámi protesters, Greta Thunberg, end demonstrations against wind turbines (News Article)

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On today’s episode, Jessica talks with Maura Sullivan (PhD student in Linguistics at Tulane University; Irish-American, Chumash and Mexican heritage, and an enrolled member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation). Maura gives Jessica a crash course in many different language topics such as the difference between language work and linguistics, what is a minoritized language, and how you can revive a language in ways other than with fluent speakers (such as the Breath of Life program). She emphasizes the need for structural changes to support language work, but also some ways that we can all be better relatives and give back on an individual level. Maura also described varying creative methods to support language work, including how she incorporates her art, provides intra-community language materials, as well as making the Šmuwič language more visible where appropriate.

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/87

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Darrell R. Kipp writing “Encouragement, Guidance, Insights, and Lessons Learned for Native Language Activists Developing Their Own Tribal Language Programs”Breath of Life Program
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, Book by Linda Tuhiwai SmithCoLang
• Encouragement, Guidance, Insights, and Lessons Learned for Native Language Activists Developing their Own Tribal Language Programs report by Darrell R. Kipp
• Appalachians against pipelines: https://www.facebook.com/appalachiansagainstpipelines/; https://www.aapsolidarity.org/ ; @‌stopthemvp (twitter); @ appalachiansagainstpipelines (Instagram)
• American Routes Podcast

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On today’s episode, Jessica goes more in depth with Joseph Gazing Wolf (Executive Director, Heritage Lands Collective [formerly Living Heritage Research Council]; Lakota, Nubian, and Amazigh) from Episode 84 on the Boulder Ethnographic-Education Project. On this episode, Joseph talks about how his childhood in Egypt and on the Standing Rock reservation inspired his interest in land, heritage, traditional ways of life, and working with elders. He talks more about his work with his buffalo relatives and how that led him to academia. He discusses how the settler-colonial context of academia is harmful to Indigenous scholars and how people in academic settings can engage with Indigenous communities in a relationally respectful manner. Finally, we conclude by talking about the work Heritage Lands Collective is doing and where Joseph would like to take it in the future, including Indigenous youth internships and youth-elder camps.

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/86

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Heritage Lands Collective website
• Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section of the Ecological Society of America Resources Page
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