Liam Frink

This leading-edge volume explores how the inclusion of indigenous histories in analyses of colonialism, collaboration with contemporary communities and scholars across the subfields of anthropology, and the engagement with these histories and with indigenous peoples contributes constructively to the decolonization of archaeology as well as to broader projects of social justice.

A Tale of Three Villages tracks the histories of three villages ancestrally linked to Chevak, a contemporary village in southwestern Alaska. Through an innovative interdisciplinary methodology that respectfully and creatively investigates the spatial and material past, the author convincingly demonstrates that, in order to understand colonial history, we must actively incorporate indigenous people as actors, not merely as reactors.