There Is More Than One Way to Do Something Right: Applying Community-Based Approaches to an Archaeology of Banks Island, NWT

• Main Author: Kelvin, Laura Elena
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2016
• Subjects: community-based archaeology; Inuvialuit; Banks Island; archaeological ethnography; arctic archaeology; community diversity; Archaeological Anthropology; Other Anthropology; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Arctic; Sachs Harbour; inuit
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/4168; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/etd/article/5896/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf

This dissertation explores how historical knowledge is produced and maintained within the Inuvialuit (Western Arctic Inuit) community of Sachs Harbour, NWT, to determine how archaeological research can best complement and respect Inuvialuit understandings and ways of knowing the past. When archaeolo...