Tla’amin-SFU Field School in Archaeology and Heritage Stewardship: Season 2
Julia is a MA candidate in the Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University. She worked in CRM for over 2 years for the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History. She received her BA from University of Oregon in 2008.
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The Tla’amin-SFU Field School in Archaeology and Heritage Stewardship is a jointly planned and managed project that aims to train Tla’amin and SFU students in the investigation, documentation, protection, and sharing of Tla’amin history and cultural heritage. Our research integrates Tla’amin oral history with archaeology, historical documentation, and local knowledge. In our second field season we aimed to further understand Tla’amin settlement patterns, social relations, resource use, and intertidal management systems. Archaeological investigations focused on sites within Tla’amin traditional territory from Desolation Sound to Lang Bay. We have learned that the Tla’amin had substantial villages throughout the region and used abundant and diverse intertidal features to procure a wide range of marine resources.
Field school excavations.
Looking west in Scuttle Bay at Defensive Island.
