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Anthropology and Climate Change

  • Anthropology
  • 6 December 2023
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Field school findings reveal pieces of St. Albert’s Métis history

  • 10 November 2023
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Anthropology PhD Student receives Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship

  • M. Whitecotton-Carroll
  • 24 October 2023
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Archaeology as restorative justice

  • The Varsity
  • 22 October 2023
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Indigenous communities lead efforts to trace the history of residential schools

  • CBC
  • 27 September 2023
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New southeast Edmonton high school named for Elder Dr. Francis Whiskeyjack

  • CTV
  • 13 September 2023
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U of A archeologist tapped to help lead major exploration of Indigenous knowledge

  • Folio
  • 12 September 2023
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Archaeologists unearth clues about life in an Alberta boom town from the early 1900s

  • CBC
  • 8 August 2023
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U of A anthropology students digging up Métis history

  • Helen Metella
  • 21 June 2023
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Ceremony gives residential school survivors sense of ‘finality,’ reclaim their spirits

  • Global News
  • 15 June 2023
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Residential school survivors, archeologists looking for unmarked graves in St. Albert

  • CTV
  • 14 June 2023
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New book by Anthropology alumnus R.Grace Morgan

  • Arts Staff
  • 29 May 2023
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Métis settlement land in St. Albert now site of U of A archaeology field school

  • Edmonton Journal
  • 27 May 2023
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Possible unmarked graves discovered at the former Blue Quills Residential School

  • CBC
  • 21 April 2023
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Dr. Brooke Milne has been appointed as Dean, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan

  • 20 April 2023
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The passing of Alumnus and long time department volunteer Peter Kirchmeir

  • M. Whitecotton-Carroll
  • 3 April 2023
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DNA shows ‘Persian Princes’ helped found medieval African trading culture

  • Science Magazine/Nature
  • 29 March 2023
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U of A only school in Canada with multiple winners of national Killam fellowships

  • Edmonton Journal
  • 27 March 2023
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Projects bring diverse perspectives to archeology and the justice system

  • Geoff McMaster
  • 15 March 2023
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Pamela R. Willoughby featured in podcast

  • 10 March 2023
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Winnipeg-based group 'deeply concerned' by federal contract with international group to advise on graves

  • CBC
  • 20 February 2023
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In Memorium—John W. “Jack” Brink (1949-2023)

  • Jack Ives, with the assistance of information from W. J. Byrne and Quinton Crowshoe
  • 15 February 2023
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 Canada's unmarked graves: How residential schools carried out "cultural genocide" against indigenous children

  • CBS
  • 13 February 2023
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Atlantis and the Apocalypse: The World of Pseudo-Archaeology

  • CBC
  • 9 February 2023
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Anthropology alumnus Hanna Friedlander wins Civilian of the Year Award

  • Marcie Whitecotton-Carroll
  • 8 February 2023
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Meet Tonya Simpson, the new Faculty Service Officer in Anthropology

  • M. Whitecotton-Carroll
  • 6 February 2023
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawchuk makes National Science Foundation's top 10 most-read research stories of 2022

  • E. Sawchuk
  • 20 January 2023
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How ground-penetrating radar is used to find unmarked graves at residential schools

  • The Toronto Star
  • 19 January 2023
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New Volume on Apachean Origins

  • Jack Ives
  • 17 January 2023

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