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The UBC De partment of History Colloquium Series brings together scholars who a re exploring important methodological\, chronological\, or geographical iss ues that challenge the frontiers of our discipline and contribute strongly to our collective discussions.
We are pleased to invite you to the 20 22/2023 Colloquium series\, featuring a talk by Dr. Paulette Steeves\, Asso ciate Professor of Sociology-Anthropology and Department Chair of Geography \, Geology\, and Land Stewardship at Algoma University. Dr. Steeves will be presenting remotely.
Whether you choose to attend virtually or in-pe rson\, please register for the event. A light lunch will be available for i n-person attendees who register in advance.
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The Indig enous past of the Western Hemisphere (the Americas) has been fabricated to fit into neoliberal timeframes of imagined “New Worlds.” Museums and archiv es are managed for the most part by non-Indigenous scholars trained in West ern academies where Indigenous erasure is a normalized and embedded practic e. Archaeological denial of the deep Indigenous past of the Western Hemisp here has traditionally been and in many ways remains a tool of disempowerme nt and dehumanizing oppression\, created by settler archaeologists to keep Indigenous civilizations as “infantile” on a global scale. However\, I have documented over 600 archaeological sites dating between 11\,200 and 200\, 000 years ago in both North and South America. In my research\, I also disc uss how the late modern state and their bureaucracies control Indigenous he ritage in the present to erase and minimalize the Indigenous past and clea ve Indigenous people’s links to their homelands. I also present an Indigeno us and archaeological view of deep Indigenous histories and discuss what re claiming and rewriting Indigenous history bring to paths of healing for Ind igenous and settler communities.
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Paulette Steeves (Cree-Metis) is As sociate Professor of Sociology-Anthropology and Department Chair of Geograp hy\, Geology\, and Land Stewardship at Algoma University. She is also Canad a Research Chair\, Tier II\, Healing and Reconciliation. Steeves is an Indi genous Archeologist with a focus on the Pleistocene history of the Americas . She was born in Whitehorse\, Yukon Territories and spent her childhood in Lillooet\, British Columbia.
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