Indigenous People Have Been Here Forever. Why Won’t Archeologists Believe It? | The Tyee
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An Indigenous archeologist on how her discipline has shaped the view of the ground beneath our feet.
Well into The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere, Paulette Steeves wearily observes: “Disagreements between archeologists over the peopling of the Americas have been so fierce that the field has been described as a battleground and an archeological badlands.” A battlefield might be a strange place to find Steeves: she is a Tier II Canada…