Indigenous People Have Been Here Forever. Why Won’t Archeologists Believe It? | The Tyee
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…
