Anastasia Walhovd (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) works to serve the Archaeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA) at Archaeology Southwest. Her work involves documenting and assessing ARPA violations on Tribal lands and educating the public about cultural resource crime. She frequently speaks to public audiences about archaeological resource crime, how to visit sites respectfully, and how to identify/report archaeological resource crime as a general member of the public.
Respecting Archaeological Sites
You’re out hiking with your kids and you stumble across an archaeological site. Do you know how to answer all their questions—how to visit a site respectfully, why we should respect archaeological sites, how these places are connected to modern Native American communities, and how to report vandalism and looting of archaeological sites? BIA-ARPA Preservation Archaeologist Anastasia Walhovd breaks it down. Her presentation can be tailored for students grades 3–5, grades 6–8, and grades 9–12. It can be presented in a traditional indoor classroom format or altered for an outdoor classroom experience, both with interactive activities to keep kids engaged. Let’s be good stewards!
The Accessibility of Archaeology/CRM for Native Americans
Archaeology and cultural resource management impact Native American heritage immensely, but historically these fields have left Indigenous people out of the conversation. How do you attract more Native Americans to work in these fields today in the face of this history? This presentation explores methods cultural resource institutions and organizations can take to make their spaces more accessible and accommodating to potential Native American candidates. Anastasia Walhovd founded the Tribal Archaeology Network in 2020 during her tenure as a Tribal Monitor with her Tribal community (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa). Walhovd is passionate about bringing more Indigenous people into the field of cultural resource management.
Gii-Anokiiwag Miinawaa Gii-Danakiiwag, They Worked Here and They Lived Here: Mapping Historic Laborers at the Pageant Tavern and Hotel
What did life look like for an Ojibwe family living on the reservation during the Great Depression? Anastasia Walhovd’s current research identifies and analyzes domestic spaces of Red Cliff Ojibwe workers employed by an early 20th-century historic hotel located on the Red Cliff reservation in northern Wisconsin. Themes of this research include identifying historically marginalized laborers and racial/ethnic groups in the archaeological record, recognizing methods of resiliency of Indigenous people in the early 20th century, and the comparison of domestic and commercial archaeological assemblages in historic tourism contexts in the Great Lakes region.