@article {11115, title = {What Makes Us Squirm{\textemdash}A Critical Assessment of Community-Oriented Archaeology}, volume = {40}, year = {2016}, pages = {164-180}, abstract = {

We provide a critical response to Andrew Martindale and Natasha Lyons\’ 2014 special section on Community-Oriented Archaeology (Canadian Journal of Archaeology Volume 38, Issue 2), discussing the authors\’ definitions, interpretations, and motivations around archaeology and community. By not defining archaeology in terms of how it is most commonly practiced, we argue the collective work misses the mark, with serious consequences for descendent communities. We show how Community-Oriented Archaeology appropriates the challenge posed to archaeologists to make their discipline relevant and responsive to Indigenous communities; instead, the authors foreground archaeology itself and reaffirm the privilege of non-Indigenous archaeologists, especially academic archaeologists. By considering what is excluded and taken-for-granted, we examine the special section in terms of selection bias and revisionist history. We suggest Community-Oriented Archaeology co-opts aspects of Indigenous, critical, and radical discourses to legitimize the institution and practice, in the process forgetting what is at stake for Indigenous peoples. Rather than focusing on the needs of archaeology and archaeologists, we emphasize the interests of Indigenous communities and address uncomfortable truths about institutional racism and systemic inequality. As the editors had hoped, Community-Oriented Archaeology makes us \“squirm,\” but not for the reasons they intended.

}, author = {Marina La Salle and Rich Hutchings} } @article {9675, title = {Curiosities, Collectors and Housepits in Banff National Park: The First Protected Archaeological Site in Canada}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {39}, year = {2015}, pages = {47-81}, abstract = {

This paper considers the beginnings of archaeological research in Banff National Park and the prominent role played by a housepit site at the Banff Springs golf course. As the Rocky Mountains were first explored, Banff was a focus for early scientific activity, including archaeology. Foremost among the amateur collectors in the late 19th and early 20th century were Bill Peyto, guide and warden, and Norman Bethune Sanson, curator of the Banff Park Museum. Professional archaeologist Harlan I. Smith came to Banff in 1913 from the Victoria Memorial Museum in Ottawa to bring order to the Banff Park Museum collections. All three were involved in recording the housepit site, the first professional archaeological work in Alberta, resulting in the first formally protected archaeological site in Canada. While archaeologists have since discovered housepit sites in other parts of Banff NP, they are unknown elsewhere in the province or in the Rocky Mountains. Without the historic record, modern archaeologists would be unaware of a significant site that was ultimately destroyed, even though it was in a protected area.

}, author = {LANGEMANN, E. Gwyn and Sheila Greaves} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {11253, title = {A Russian Perspective on Theoretical Archaeology: The Life and Work of Leo S. Klejn}, volume = {40}, year = {2016}, pages = {360{\textendash}363}, editor = {Andrew P. Roddick} } @article {11038, title = {Mixed Messages: Deciphering the Okanagan{\textquoteright}s Historic McDougall Family}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {39}, year = {2015}, pages = {241-256}, abstract = {

Historical Archaeology is founded on the process of cross-referencing written historical records with archaeological remains, yet the demand to reconcile contradictions between historical and archaeological data can restrict analytical results. In a recent study of the ethnicity of the Okanagan{\textquoteright}s historical McDougall Family (1859{\textendash}1905), historical and genealogical records suggested that the family was increasingly identifying with their Indigenous (Syilx) kin and community (Legault 2012). An archaeological survey of the vernacular architecture of M{\'e}tis trader Jean Baptiste McDougall and his sons contradict the historical data, as the five houses studied increasingly exhibit features associated with upper class Euro-Canadian society. The discrepancies between the data sets are not indicative of a problem with the written and material assemblages, but are rather a matter of theoretical orientation. By overcoming the binary analysis (colonizer/colonized) that is typically prescribed to historical peoples during the colonial period and instead employing nuanced notions of hybridity, the results suggest that the McDougall family was replicating the complex and contradictory identification that is commonly found amongst people of M{\'e}tis and/or mixed Indigenous and Euro-Canadian heritage.

}, author = {Gabrielle Legault} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {11542, title = {Unsettling Mobility: Mediating Mi{\textquoteright}kmaw Sovereignty in Post-contact Nova Scotia}, volume = {41}, year = {2017}, pages = {343-346}, editor = {M. Gabriel Hrynick} } @article {11803, title = {Foraging New Ground: Documenting Ancient Resource and Environmental Management in Canadian Archaeology}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {42}, year = {2018}, pages = {057-073}, author = {Dana Lepofsky and Chelsey Geralda Armstrong} } @article {11534, title = {The World of Capitena Ioannis: Basques and Inuit in the Seventeenth Century}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {41}, year = {2017}, pages = {173-211}, abstract = {It is often thought that Europeans left Labrador about 1630, and that only Inuit populated the territory until French colonisation in 1703. This paper shows that Basques from Spain were present in the Strait of Belle Isle and Gran Baya, the northeast arm of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, throughout the seventeenth century. Thus, the Basque presence was roughly coterminous with Inuit expansion into this region. Using both historical and archaeological sources, the paper first summarises evidence that Basque navigation to the study area continued without interruption until about 1700. Secondly, it shows that Basques from Spain engaged in sealing and suggests that the seal economy brought them into direct contact with the Inuit, either as competitors or collaborators. Thirdly, it analyses traces of Basque cultural influences in seventeenth-century Inuit society.}, author = {Brad Loewen} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {11540, title = {Contact in the 16th Century: Networks among Fishers, Foragers and Farmers}, volume = {41}, year = {2017}, pages = {338-339}, editor = {Matthew A. Beaudoin} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {11043, title = {Archaeology of the War of 1812}, volume = {39}, year = {2015}, pages = {352-354}, editor = {Henry C. Cary} } @article {11813, title = {Looking Both Ways at Community-Oriented Archaeologies in Canada}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {42}, year = {2018}, pages = {172-183}, author = {Natasha Lyons and Susan Blair} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {13486, title = {Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence}, volume = {46}, year = {2022}, pages = {209-212}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/46.2.209}, editor = {Natasha Lyons} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {11118, title = {Where the Wind Blows Us: Practicing Critical Community Archaeology in the Canadian North}, volume = {40}, year = {2016}, pages = {209-212}, editor = {Laurence G. Bolduc} }