If you’re doing work in this vein already: you’re making my students proud. If you’re not, there’s still time :) if you need some inspo, take it from Damien and Nas: youtu.be/c9VQye6P8k0?...

#BlackPastsMatter #BlackFolksAlsoHaveHistory #NativePastsMatter #NativeFolksAlsoHaveHistory #decolonize ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

accountable histories
- rearticulating power relations thru material & spiritual encounter
- allowing space for the sacred in scientific inquiry
- making the ancestors proud
- validating our experiences of survivance
- mending and rebraiding the histories we value and share with each other

they remarked that archaeology was a powerful tool/craft for:
- creating a more equitable society
- grounding in but moving beyond archy’s material obsession
- creating space to collaborate w/ communities but ALSO for communities to collaborate w/ each other
- creating accessible, transparent, and

Today was the last day of my course Black & Indigenous Archaeologies. I’m so proud of the work these young scholars from w/in & outside archaeology are doing. We can change the course of this field but we got a ways to go. Job’s not done. When asked about the future of an archy done for us, by us