@article {9572,
	title = {Retrospective: Canadian Prairies Archaeology, 1857{\textendash}1886: Exploration and Self Development},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {33},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {001-039},
	abstract = {<p>Systematic archaeology is generally said to have begun in the Canadian prairies during the late 1930s. Manitoba, however, experienced a much earlier beginning which is now little known and sometimes held up to scorn. Launched as part of government-sponsored explorations in 1857, archaeological development accelerated after 1879 under the auspices of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba. The Society undertook an ambitious program which broached the most significant questions of the day\&mdash;about the content, distribution and origin of burial mounds. Within less than a decade, they had carried out excavations and surveys from northwestern Ontario to southeastern Saskatchewan while describing their results in local, national, and international publications, and establishing a public museum for their collections. Initially, their work received strong public and political support, but support waned following the second Riel Rebellion.</p>}
}
