THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOHISTORY OF A DROWNED LAND: INNU NATION RESEARCH ALONG THE FORMER MICHIKAMATS LAKE SHORE IN NITASSINAN (INTERIOR LABRADOR)
During the last decade the practice of archaeology in the boreal forest of the eastern Canadian Subarctic has undergone profound change. Most significantly much of the research conducted in the region is now characterized by the active participation, guidance, and involvement of First Nations' communities in the whole spectrum of archaeological research from research design through field work and analysis. The resulting "community archaeology" often has a significant ethnohistorical and ethnological component reflecting both community interests in the recent past and a strong humanist paradigm that blurs the distinction between archaeology and history. Research sponsored by the Innu Nation in the Smallwood Reservoir region of central Labrador is an example of such collaborative research and resulted in significantly expanding the knowledge of recent and former land-use in the region prior to its inundation by a massive hydroelectric project in the 1970s
Article, 2003