Research

My research interests include:

Approaches: Community-based research; Indigenous science; Indigenous archaeology; Feminist archaeology; Archaeological science

Methods: Participant observation; non-invasive field methods; stable isotope analysis; trace element analysis; hair analysis; bone/tooth histology

Applications: Human-animal-environment interactions (especially humans and large mammals in North America); paleoecology; paleodiets; paleoclimates; paleoenvironments

Geographical areas: Tsattine territory (NW Alberta), Western Canada, Northern Canada, Great Lakes region, Great Basin, American Southwest.

I encourage students interested in undergraduate or graduate opportunities in these areas to contact me.

My current SSHRC Insight Development Grant project (2019-present), titled Dene Bison Hunting and Migration: Western Science and Indigenous Perspectives, is being conducted in partnership with Victoria Wanihadie (Beaver) of the Tsattine Resurgence Society and collaborators at the University of British Columbia, University of Alberta, and Western University. The overall goal of the project is to combine Western science and Indigenous perspectives on bison in northern Utah and northern Alberta, that are critical for understanding both Dene migrations and bison-hunting.

Learn more about our project on our website, beaverlandalberta.org