Anastasia Walhovd

Originally from northern Wisconsin, Anastasia Walhovd is an enrolled member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Anastasia is a Preservation Archaeologist whose primary duties include documenting and assessing Archaeological Resource Protection Act violations on Tribal lands and educating the public about cultural resource crime.

She recently completed her master’s at New Mexico State University. Her thesis research documented the domestic space of Red Cliff Ojibwe workers employed by an early 20th-century historic hotel located on the Red Cliff reservation. She has worked in cultural resource management as a Tribal monitor and an archaeologist since 2018 in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas, and New Mexico. She previously served as the newsletter editor for the Council for Minnesota Archaeology 2018–2020. In 2020, Anastasia founded the Tribal Archaeology Network, an email listserv and online community space for Indigenous archaeologists and archaeologists serving Indigenous communities.

In her spare time, Anastasia enjoys making music, singing, hiking, paddle boarding, kayaking, skiing, snowboarding, yoga, writing, cooking, foraging wild grown food, and learning languages. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and she is currently studying Ojibwemowin.