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Kisha Supernant

@archaeomapper.bsky.social
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#Metis archaeologist in amiskwacîwâskahikan. Advocating for Indigenous heritage rights. Helping communities find their children.

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Check out this important new paper, co-written by IPIA scholars Dr. Kisha Supernant ( @archaeomapper.bsky.social) and Solène Mallet Gauthier (@somag.bsky.social), on confronting and disrupting "grey zones" in Canadian archaeology 🏺
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Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones” | American Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones” - Volume 90 Issue 3
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Communties need reliable sources of information and guidance to help support the sacred work of searching for missing children. The defunding of the NAC is a huge setback for the work.
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Registration is open for the upcoming IPIA speaker series! It is a hybrid event featuring some of our scholars sharing their amazing research about stories of landscape.
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hello everyone! It's time for a proper introduction! We are the IPIA, an Indigenous-led institute at the University of Alberta. We are committed to continuing to support Indigenous-engaged archaeological research 🏺 1/5
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Director's Statement
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The IPIA partnered with Chipewyan Prairie First Nation to offer archaeological training to community members in what we hope will be the first of many courses of this type. Thanks to @mapsworth.bsky.social for being the amazing instructor! www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...
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Video Spotlight: Indigenous learners delve into archaeology
A new U of A micro-course in archaeology teaches young Indigenous adults how to investigate and identify cultural artifacts, with a view to keeping them on First Nations land.
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God @thegodshow.com · 11/01/2025
The same people who believe in “The Great Replacement Theory,” who think they will all be replaced by foreigners, will all actually be giddily replaced by AI by their tech bro overlords.
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Feeling deeply inspired (dare I even say hopeful?) after an extraordinary session. Seeing heart-centered archaeology resonate with people across so many places, contexts, and positionalities was wonderful. Thank you to all the amazing participants! #SHA2025 #archaeology
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Today's the day! Session starts at 9 am in Galerie 2.
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Azie Dungey @aziedungey.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
In 1850, the California government banned the controlled burning that Indigenous people had been doing for centuries. The practice controlled the forest density, scaled down undergrowth, and promoted fire-resistant species. It reduced the severity, mileage, and overall number of forest fires. 1/5
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Excited to be in New Orleans for #SHA2025! I'm co-chairing an all day session Friday on Landscapes of Care: Exploring Heart-centered Practice in Historical Archaeology with a diverse and intriguing set of papers. If you are here, come check it out! #archaeology #NOLA
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Lauren Nofi @lenofi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
We don’t do this for credit; we do it for JUSTICE and COMMUNITY CARE. We do it because Ancestors are being brutalized in death. #Repatriation to descendant communities is the only ethical way forward.
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Archaeologists used GPR to identify the probable location of a cemetery for people who were enslaved by Andrew Jackson on the grounds of The Hermitage plantation. 🧪🏺
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Burials of 28 people Andrew Jackson enslaved found at his Hermitage plantation in Tennessee
Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, enslaved hundreds of people. Archaeologists have discovered where 28 of them were buried.
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🏺🧪🦴 Amazing opportunity for two PhD students to join us at Cambridge Uni! Topic: later pastoralists in Kenya, diet, mobility #archaeology #isotopes #zooarch www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49439/
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Two PhD Studentships in the Archaeology of Later Pastoralism in Kenya - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Two PhD Studentships in the Archaeology of Later Pastoralism in Kenya in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
After being trapped in Early View purgatory for over a year, the article @mapsworth.bsky.social, @archaeomapper.bsky.social, and I wrote together has *officially* been published in a special issue of Archaeological Prospection! Available open access below: 🏺
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Saying what we mean, meaning what we say: Managing miscommunication in archaeological prospection
In North America, archaeological prospection has recently undergone a surge in popularity, resulting in higher visibility for both scientific and fringe narratives. This has been partially due to inc...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This is how it’s done.
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Another great starter pack created by @archaeocobb.bsky.social highlights all the archaeologists doing a great job highlighting diversity, equity, and inclusion Check out this great group of scholars and activists in the field. And be sure to follow Prof Prof Hannah Cobb! bsky.app/starter-pack...
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IllumiNative @illuminative.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
“Native peoples are not mascots for sport and entertainment. It is impossible to heal from the decades of racism inflicted on us by way of the team’s fan traditions and former name if we must continue making this point." #NotYourMascot www.huffpost.com/entry/washin...
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Washington’s Football Team Ditched Its Offensive Name, But A Senator Wants To Save The Logo
A senator is pushing the NFL team to “restore” the former logo, which is widely seen by Native American groups as insulting.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
After years of the families pushing for action, the landfill search for the remains of two First Nation women who were killed by a Winnipeg serial killer began on Monday. Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew spoke to media about the search.
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Landfill search for the remains of two women begins in Manitoba | APTN News
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IllumiNative @illuminative.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
📣 Contact your Congress members today! Tell them they must pass the bipartisan U.S. Truth & Healing Commission Bill NOW if they ever want to see truth, justice, and healing for boarding school survivors and their families. Act Now: bit.ly/4fDDK9F
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Reading through old reports always makes me angry at how much Métis archaeology has been destroyed, ignored or impacted because it was deemed "historic" and therefore less important than earlier material. #archaeology #indigenous
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
If you have family or friends who aren't convinced of the horrors brought upon Indigenous people in Canada maybe tell them the story of how the federal government murdered thousands of sled dog puppies to try and destroy the Inuit way of life
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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The association Atlantis with white supremacy is well documented. It's not archaeologists looking back to the 1800's to make that association, it's the white supremacists themselves who are writing and saying it as recently as 2024.
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This is a dangerous precedent to set. The fact that both tribal affiliations and pronouns were targeted demonstrates that we need to have solidarity across many different issues and uplift each others voices. #Indigenous #LBGTQIA2S+
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 24/11/2024
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Sicillian: I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the half-full cup in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it so I can clearly not choose the half-empty cup in front of me
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Archaeologist: The cup is a ritual object used in strange, esoteric ways by ancient people. Indigenous person: The cup is the belonging of my ancestor and none of your business.
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/11/2024
Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We didn't write this one
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Are you one of the many profs assigning my article "Beyond Territorial Acknowledgments" in your class? Well I've got an updated version for you! apihtawikosisan.com/2024/11/revi...
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Yukon First Nations artists are fighting to protect their artistic practices. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Yukon First Nations artists want legal protection from cultural appropriation | CBC News
Artists say inappropriate use of traditional art forms by non-Indigenous creators is on the rise.
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Gave a guest lecture today about how current heritage legislation in Canada is a barrier Indigenous cultural heritage rights. One of the students was struggling to imagine how anyone could think they had rights to dig up Indigenous people's ancestors on their land.
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R Dawn Wambold @rdwambold.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
New publication alert! I’ve co-authored a chapter with @archaeomapper.bsky.social that is in the new Routledge Handbook of Gender Archaeology being released on December 2! We write about feminist and relational approaches to interpreting Métis archaeology. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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The Routledge Handbook of Gender Archaeology
This volume presents a comprehensive overview of gender archaeology, both theory and practice, and contributes a substantial and definitive reference work by bringing together state-of-the-art researc...
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Carla Peck, PhD @carlapeck.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, a reminder: Trans Rights are Human Rights.
A poster, showing people of various genders, that reads, “Trans Rights are human rights. Take action!”
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'm excited to be back in a space where we can have meaningful dialogue without being drowned in hate (and bots!) So, who should I follow in this new, blue sky space?
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 20/11/2024
Talk about Indigenous people in the present tense. We are still here.
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Seems like everyone is moving to this platform so I'm considering engaging more. How are people enjoying the platform so far?
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 13/05/2023
38 years ago today, Philadelphia police bombed a residential block in West Philly, murdering 11 people—6 adults and 5 children, all members of the radical Black liberation group MOVE—and burning 61 homes. In 2020, the City Council finally apologized. t.co/l6llQsZDLo
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What You Need to Know About the MOVE Bombing
And how Philadelphia became "the city that bombed itself."
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 12/05/2023
Indigenous ancestors and belongings have been taken to museums where they live in boxes, in bags, and in warehouses. They are our relatives. They are incarcerated. They need to come home.
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Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social · 10/05/2023
I've been hearing really good things about this space so I'm excited to be here!
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