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: 🏺

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...

Join us in congratulating IPIA scholar Maria Nelson, who yesterday successfully completed her Masters degree! Congratulations, Maria! 🎉🎉

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...

ICYMI: give this excellent new paper a read! 🏺

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 🏺

Join us in a big congratulations to IPIA PhD candidate Dawn Wambold, who has been awarded the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship! 🎉🎉🎉 🏺

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! 🏺

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 🏺

Check it out: former IPIA scholars Lyndsay Dagg and Dr. Liam Wadsworth are co-authors on a great new paper about the John Ware homestead, a homestead belonging to one of the prairies first Black residents. 🏺

Check it out: the newest episode of the True Canadians podcast, "Harrison Ford Need Not Apply," host David Wylynko talks to IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant about the EMITA project and the need to upend a history of non-Indigenous academics dominating the tale of Indigenous history 🏺

If you're in the Edmonton area, Métis Trash Talking: An Archeological Footprint in St. Albert is back, on July 24th and August 21st! IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant will be sharing the follow-up research from the 2023 IPIA field school and earlier excavations. Register at the link below: 🏺

The IPIA was featured in episode 7 of Crash Course: Native American History, hosted by Che Jim, among other groups working to decolonize archaeology! Episode 7 discusses the harmful legacy of anthropology and archaeology and explores the ways in which these fields are righting past wrongs. 🏺

The Indigenous Cultural Heritage Rights Task Force has submitted a statement to the office of the Prime Minister & the Quality of Life & Well-Being Committee urging the implementation of UNDRIP Action Plan Measure 98, re: the repatriation of Ancestors & cultural belongings. You can read it here: 🏺

Check it out! IPIA Scholar Dr. Liam Wadsworth was interviewed about his work prior to his convocation next week. Congratulations, Liam! 🏺

A fun interview write-up about my work in advance of my convocation next week! www.ualberta.ca/en/arts/facu...

Check it out! IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social was interviewed for a new episode of CBC Ideas! Read the article and find the link to listen to the episode below: 🏺

Extremely satisfied with the environmental archaeology session I hosted at the #CAA2025 ! Beautiful range of papers about charcoal, seeds, soils, animal bones & DNA. Especially happy with the fact that many presenters were graduate students or ECRs @can-arch.bsky.social

If you're at the BC Studies conference today, you can catch IPIA PhD student Steph Halmhofer talking about some of her research at 10:30!

Check it out! IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant was interviewed for UAlberta's Social Sciences and Humanities podcast! You can find the link below: 🏺

Are you at the CAA conference this week and curious about environmental archaeology? Check out the session hosted by IPIA PhD Candidate @somag.bsky.social on Saturday! 🏺 canadianarchaeology.com/caa/annual-m...

This evening! Get your votes cast and then join us online or in-person to learn about our Guide to Good Relations. Links below to learn more about the guide and the event! 🏺

This is next week! Registration is still available, check the link below:

Congratulations to our IPIA scholars @mapsworth.bsky.social, @cultarchaeo.bsky.social, and @archaeomapper.bsky.social, whose article "Saying what we mean, meaning what we say" is within the top 10% most-read 2023 articles in Archaeological Prospection! You can read it (open access) below! 🏺

New piece out today: Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives have a Residential School Denialism Problem: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

ICYMI: April 28th, join us in person or online (FREE registration) to learn about how we developed our Guide to Good Relations! Check out the info below to learn more about both the Guide and our April 28th event 🏺

📢 New publicaton alert! IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant has a chapter in the newly published collection reflecting on 100 years of archaeology at the University of Michigan! www.fulcrum.org/epubs/8g84mq...

Mark your calendars! On April 28th we'll be hosting our third hybrid Speaker Series event, about the IPIA's Guide to Good Relations. Free to attend but registration required for both online and in-person 🏺 app.groupize.com/organization...

Join us in sharing a huge congratulations to IPIA scholar *DR* Wadsworth, who successfully defended his PhD thesis! 🎉🎉🎉

This thursday! Virtual registration still available, check the link below for details! 🏺

This is important news. The settlement would go towards healing, wellness, reconciliation, protection of languages, education and commemoration, as well as research, education, preservation of the history of the hospitals, and locating burial sites. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Thank you to all that joined us for our first Speaker Series of the year! On that note, our second Speaker Series event is coming March 20! Interested in Stories of the Small? Check out our great lineup of speakers, and find the online registration link below 🏺 www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-i...

Interested to hear about what some of our IPIA scholars are up to? Our first Speaker Series is tomorrow, and there's still time to register! 🏺

This is happening tomorrow! Last chance for you to register and last chance for me to slash 10 minutes from my presentation!

ICYMI: our Speaker Series this semester will feature several of our IPIA scholars! If you're interested in learning more about all the cool projects we're working on (and how many share common threads), be sure to tune into our events! First one is coming up on Feb 27, 3:30 pm MT 🏺

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.

IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant: "We are extremely disheartened and disappointed by the decision not to renew funding for this work, which is so important to reconciliation and to healing for our people." Read this important statement on the Gov't of Canada not renewing funding for the NAC:

ICYMI: our Speaker Series this semester will feature several of our IPIA scholars! If you're interested in learning more about all the cool projects we're working on (and how many share common threads), be sure to tune into our events! First one is coming up on Feb 27, 3:30 pm MT 🏺

I'll be talking about Brother XII and the Aquarian Foundation's archives + archaeology! 🏺

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.

Exciting news - our first Speaker Series Event of 2025 is coming soon! Join @ldagg.bsky.social, @rdwambold.bsky.social, and @cultarchaeo.bsky.social on Feb 27, 3:30 pm MT, to hear about the different ways they examine landscapes in their research 🏺 Hybrid event, reg. required for online attendees 👇

Interested in environmental archaeology? Check out Solène's session at the upcoming CAA conference and consider submitting a paper (or contact Solène for more info)! 🏺

Check it out: we have a new section of community resources available on our website! Drawn together by IPIA alum Madalyn Mandziuk, thesw resources are meant to assist with archival research.

I spoke with Al Jazeera last week about Residential School Denialism and extremists in Canada. www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

Thanks to @ajenglish.bsky.social for this special in-depth feature on the harm of residential school denialism, bringing it to the wider world’s attention: www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

I learned so much this week from @somag.bsky.social and Dr. Lyons. They set up a fun workshop yesterday and I learned why I couldn’t decide if the charred seeds were canola or mustard (Because they’re both brassica rapa!)

Last day in the lab with Dr. Natasha Lyons, my archaeobot mentor! Been learning so much about charcoal ID the past few days 🌲🌳 New skill unlocked!

Dawn is another person you should follow if you're into landscape archaeology! She's setting up a really cool Métis landscape project, and is also very good at IDing historic ceramics and glasses (and I benefit because I get to see many pretty pics of said items 🤩) 🏺

Confronting Residential School denialism is something that is important to us. To learn more about it, check out this new article from Al Jazeera, featuring comments from IPIA Director @archaeomapper.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

Celebrating and promoting each other. It’s how we do things in the @uofa-ipia.bsky.social! Go follow Steph by the way, her work regarding the cult of Brother XII and cospirituality is fascinating!