Giving the Past a Future: Community Archaeology, Youth Engagement and Heritage in Quinhagak, Alaska

• Published in: Études Inuit Studies
• Main Authors: Hillerdal, Charlotta, Watterson, Alice, Williams, M. Akiqaralria, Alaskuk Strunk, Lonny, Nalikutaar Cleveland, Jacqueline, Joseph, Corey Al’aq
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA) 2022
• Subjects: Community Archaeology; Indigenous Archaeology; Yup’ik; Yup’ik Heritage; Youth Engagement; Archéologie communautaire; archéologie autochtone; patrimoine Yup’ik; engagement des jeunes; Nunalget Elakengaliuryarait; Nutemllaat Kinguvrita Elakengaliuryarait; Yupiit Paitait; Ayagyuat Ilagauciat; Grandi; Études/Inuit/Studies; Yupiit; Alaska
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1106913ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1106913ar

Initiated by the descendant community of Quinhagak and endorsed by village Elders, the Nunalleq Archaeology Project was unique for Yup’ik Alaska when it began in 2009. Since then, this embedded community project has provided the village with over a decade of archaeological presence in the form of ex...