Podcast
Episode 15: Dr. Scott Neilson - Archaeology in Collaboration with the Community of Sheshatshiu.
Today we are up in Labrador speaking with Dr. Scott Neilson, an archaeologist and faculty member of the Subarctic and Arctic Studies with the Labrador Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland. This interview takes place on an active excavation site within the community of Sheshatshiu, Labrador. Scott and I discuss the advantages of having students, researchers and community members participating in an active excavation site, specifically as a possible way of connecting the western approach of archaeological history with the Innu peoples approaches to their story. In this discussion Dr. Neilson also puts emphasis on his role as a researcher in service which he describes, as research that is foremostly driven by the community’s needs and is initiated by invitation by community members rather than by the researcher request to explore questions formulated within a western framework.