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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta

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We are the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, an Indigenous-led institute with a commitment to continuing to support Indigenous-engaged archaeological research. Find out more: www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-indigeno….

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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is a day to honour and acknowledge the children who attended residential schools, their families, and communities. We encourage everyone to engage in ways appropriate to your situation, and to carry these teachings into the future.
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Statement on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, September 30th, 2026
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Our fieldschool is well underway in St. Albert! Curious for updates and info on upcoming public talk about this project? Check out the video below! 🏺 www.instagram.com/reel/DZpx-XZ...
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RO Rossier @rorossier.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I’m inspired by Kisha Supernant and the @uofa-ipia.bsky.social team!
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"There are many lines of evidence to help find children, most importantly Survivor, family, and community knowledge, but also archives and ground search methods such as ground-penetrating radar." - @archaeomapper.bsky.social - @uofa-ipia.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/04/03/t... #archaeology
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The Land Holds Truth: Searching for Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential Schools
After Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc 2021 announcement, communities searched for missing children, using archaeology to shift from harm toward truth, healing, accountability, and justice.
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This year's IPIA field school has officially begun! Keep an eye on our social media for updates on news and events 😊 We wish all of the field school students a very happy first week! 🏺
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
It's finally time 🎉 The @can-arch.bsky.social conference starts tomorrow (May 6), and you'll be able to find several of our lovely IPIA scholars all over the place! If you're at the conference, come check out our sessions and presentations and say hi! 🏺
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The @can-arch.bsky.social conference is only a few weeks away, and the preliminary schedule is now available online 🎉 You can catch IPIA scholars presenting all over the conference, and Solène and Sara's session on historical archaeology in western Canada will be the morning of May 8th 🏺
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Historical Archaeology in Western Canadian Contexts: New and Emerging
Although historical archaeology has been at the center of Canadian archaeology since its early beginnings, some parts of the country and topics, such as settler history, have been explored more than
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In partnership with UAlberta's Department of Anthropology, we have a special speaker event coming up! On April 29th, join us in-person to hear Dr. Dara Bramson talk about Indigenous knowledges and western science in a clinical context. See below for more info:
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Braiding in the Clinic: A Conversation with Dr. Dara Bramson
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Join us tomorrow, April 8th, in-person or online to hear Dr. Eve Nimmo speak about legacy collections! 12:05 - 1:00 pm MT, free to attend but registration for online participation required. Visit the link to learn more! 🏺
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2025/2026 Speaker Series: Entangled Trajectories: Bringing New Life to Legacy Collections with Dr. Eve Nimmo
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
A new article from IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant! You can read the article at the link below: 🏺
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Only a few days left to submit an abstract for this year's CAA conference! If you're interested in historical archaeology, check out Sara and Solène's session and consider submitting an abstract (due March 31st)! 🏺
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Happy Friday, everyone! Don't forget, our next Speaker Series event is next Tuesday, the 24th. Curious to learn more? Check out the link below! 🏺
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Interested in historical archaeology and planning to attend the Canadian Archaeological Association conference in May? Consider submitting a paper to this great session, hosted by two of our IPIA scholars! Email Solène or Sara for more info, and visit the CAA website to submit an abstract 🏺
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Interested in learning more about field schools being offered through UAlberta? Check out this upcoming roundtable discussion, on Feb 25th! 🏺
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2026 Field School Roundtable
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Good news - our first Speaker Series event of 2026 is coming this month! Join us Feb 24th, 11:30 am (MT), to learn about ecocultural archives from Dr. Robin Woywitka. Free to attend in person or online, registration for online is required. Learn more at the webpage we've linked! 🏺
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2025/26 Speaker Series: At-risk Ecocultural Archives of Western Canada with Dr. Robin Woywitka
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
There's still time for students to apply to the 2026 IPIA Field School, held in St. Albert from May 25 to June 26. Check out the page below to learn more! Applications close Feb 15th. 🏺
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2026 Field School
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Applications are still open! Want to learn more? Check out our website for details! 🏺
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Register and join us tomorrow for this webinar on how to identify and confront the rising tide of residential school denialism and antI-Indigenous hatred.
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ICYMI: applications for our 2026 field school are now open! Check out the website below for more info. 🏺
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Are you interested in historic archaeology in western Canada? Consider submitting a paper to this great session hosted by two of our wonderful IPIA scholars, Dr. Solène Mallet Gauthier and Sara Lefurgey, at this year's CAA conference! 🏺
canadianarchaeology.com
Historical Archaeology in Western Canadian Contexts: New and Emerging
Although historical archaeology has been at the center of Canadian archaeology since its early beginnings, some parts of the country and topics, such as settler history, have been explored more than
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Former IPIA scholar Dr. Solène Mallet Gauthier @somag.bsky.social was interviewed by Radio-Canada about CRM archaeology in Canada and the need for more archaeologists. Listen (in French) at the link below! 🏺
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Pénurie d’archéologues professionnels au Canada | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Le café show : Pénurie d’archéologues professionnels au Canada
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ICYMI: applications for our 2026 field school are now open! Check out the website below for more info. 🏺
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Happy New Year, everyone! We're excited to share that applications for the 2026 IPIA archaeology field school in St. Albert, AB, are now open! Applications will close on February 15, 2026. Visit our website for the application link, and to learn more: 🏺
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2026 Field School
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Join us in congratulating IPIA scholar Solène Mallet Gauthier, who today passed her PhD defense! Congratulations, Doctor Mallet Gauthier!
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Check it out: a new open access article from a special 2023 roundtable session at the AAAs featuring interviews with anthropologists and archaeologists who are helping identify unmarked graves at Residential Schools (Canada) and boarding schools (US), including IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant 🏺
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Bringing past into present: Transitions, truth and reckoning with unmarked residential school graves | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
Bringing past into present: Transitions, truth and reckoning with unmarked residential school graves
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Tomorrow! Online registration is still open!
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We are disappointed to see that the new Federal Budget has not committed to sustained, long-term funding towards supporting the ongoing investigations into missing children and unmarked graves associated with Indian Residential Schools in Canada. See the CAA statement below for more:
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Statement On the Lack of Funding in Federal Budget 2025 for
The Canadian Archaeological Association expresses our deep concern and profound disappointment that no new funding has been announced in Federal Budget 2025 to support the critical and ongoing
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Field school news! The IPIA will once again be running our Indigenous Archaeology Field School in St. Albert, AB, from May 25th to June 26th 2026. Applications will open Jan 5th, 2026. Learn more at our field school page: 🏺 www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-i...
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2026 Field School
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If you're in St. Albert on Friday, come hear recent IPIA grad Maria Nelson share some of her research into Métis cemeteries, kinscapes, and deathscapes! 🏺
Description for Maria's talk about her research conducted at the Batoche National Historic Site. Talk will be held at the Musée Héritage Museum, which is inside St. Albert Place, on Friday Nov 21 from 2 to 3 pm Mountain Time. Admission is $3 per person.
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Our next Speaker Series event is on Dec 2, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm (MT)! Dr. Katie Biittner will be talking about archaeogaming and the early history of video game development. In-person and online, visit our event page for more info! 🏺 www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-i...
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2025 Speaker Series - Digging Digital Artifacts: the Archaeology of Early Videogame Implementation
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If you're in St. Albert on Friday, come hear recent IPIA grad Maria Nelson share some of her research into Métis cemeteries, kinscapes, and deathscapes! 🏺
Description for Maria's talk about her research conducted at the Batoche National Historic Site. Talk will be held at the Musée Héritage Museum, which is inside St. Albert Place, on Friday Nov 21 from 2 to 3 pm Mountain Time. Admission is $3 per person.
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Field school news! The IPIA will once again be running our Indigenous Archaeology Field School in St. Albert, AB, from May 25th to June 26th 2026. Applications will open Jan 5th, 2026. Learn more at our field school page: 🏺 www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-i...
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2026 Field School
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Our next Speaker Series event is on Dec 2, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm (MT)! Dr. Katie Biittner will be talking about archaeogaming and the early history of video game development. In-person and online, visit our event page for more info! 🏺 www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-i...
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2025 Speaker Series - Digging Digital Artifacts: the Archaeology of Early Videogame Implementation
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Congratulations to our MA student Sara Lefurgey for her first conference presentation, on soil spectroscopy and her use of tech called the S4 in burial contexts, at the recent conference for the Canadian Association of Biological Anthropology! 🎉 🏺
Sara standing in a room of seated audience members. To her left is a large projector screen with the title of her presentation, "Exploring parameters and limitations: soil spectroscopy in burial contexts."
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Thank you to all who attended, and to our wonderful speaker Dr. Andre Costopoulos for such an interesting talk! Stay tuned for details for our next talk in early December, perhaps a little something about archaeogaming 👀 🏺
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
This is on Thursday! Online registration is available for those who can't attend in-person! 🏺
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Our first Speaker Series event of 2025 is coming up! Join us on Oct 30, 11:30 to 12:30 pm MT, to hear Dr. Andre Costopoulos talk about the evolution of UFO beliefs from WWII to today! Attend in-person in Tory 14-28, or join us online (registration in the next post). Hope to see you there! 🏺
Poster for a talk on Oct 30, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm MT, titled "The Cultural Evolution of Beliefs About UFOs since the Second World War." Talk is in-person on the UAlberta campus, in the Tory Building, room 14-28. It is also available online, and the registration for the zoom link is in the next post.
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Morgan L. Ventura (they/she) @morganvl.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This is great news! The Vatican holds a number of sacred objects belonging to Indigenous communities across the globe, spanning Asia to Africa and the Americas. I hope this will be the first of many
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This morning IPIA PhD Candidate Solène Mallet Gauthier was interviewed by Radio-Canada about the Vatican's return of Indigenous belongings. Give it a listen at the link below! 🏺 ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
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Des artefacts autochtones des musées du Vatican retournent au Canada | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Le café show : Des artefacts autochtones des musées du Vatican retournent au Canada
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"Heart-centered practice wants to take emotion from the margins, something you talk about in the hallways, to the center of scholarship." Check out this excellent new interview with our IPIA Director, Dr. Kisha Supernant 🏺
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The End of Archaeology as We Know It - World Records
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
In 2026 the IPIA, in collaboration with the Indigenous Heritage Circle (IHC) & the Indigenous Council of the Canadian Museums Association (CMA), will host a conference in Edmonton to discuss the development of a national framework for Indigenous cultural heritage rights w/in Canada. More info below:
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2025 Recipient
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
In Calgary on Oct 4? IPIA PhD Candidate Dawn Wambold will be speaking at the Confluence Symposium, about using NWMP memoirs to identify and interpret Métis archaeological sites. The symposium's focus is on the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the NWMP at Fort Calgary. Tickets available below: 🏺
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The Confluence Symposium — The Confluence
Share meaningful ideas about history, Indigenous experiences and colonial power as part of The Confluence Symposium on October 3-5.
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Heading to the Prairie Political Science Association Conference in Banff this weekend? You can catch several of our scholars presenting on Saturday, as part of the Indigenous Relationality Workshop! Find the schedule here: www.prairiepsa.com/ppsa-and-irw...
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2025 PPSA & IRW Conference Program
The PPSA fosters the study of political science, showcasing political science about the Prairies through scholarship by political scientists on the Prairies and beyond.
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Join us in congratulating IPIA scholar Maria Nelson, who yesterday successfully completed her Masters degree! Congratulations, Maria! 🎉🎉
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Our latest newletter was just sent out, with some scholar updates and upcoming events we'll be participating in! Interested in getting our quarterly newsletter delivered to your inbox? You can sign up here: 🏺 www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-i...
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How To Get Involved
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
ICYMI: give this excellent new paper a read! 🏺
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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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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Join us in a big congratulations to IPIA PhD candidate Dawn Wambold, who has been awarded the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship! 🎉🎉🎉 🏺
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Award Winning Graduate Student in the Department of Anthropology
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
If you're in the St. Albert area on August 21st, you can join IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant for the Trash Talking event, to learn more about the results of the 2023 IPIA field school and what it tells us about the Métis presence in St. Albert. Tickets are $5, see the link for more info! 🏺
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Métis Trash Talking: An Archeological Footprint in St. Albert
From trash to treasures, bones to beads, there is always more to learn from the land beneath our feet. In May and June 2023, the University of Alberta’s Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archeology ...
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Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta @uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Check it out! IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social and IPIA PhD Candidate Dawn Wambold @rdwambold.bsky.social were both featured in a new issue of Futurm Magazine (beginning pg. 76), where they talk about the IPIA and Indigenous-engaged archaeology 🏺
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