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This chapter outlines our personal journeys towards a more heart-centred practice through our experiences as part of the Ikaahuk Archaeology Project, a community-focussed research project in Northern Canada. We describe how we came to the project and how we have tried to integrate our minds, hearts, and bodies in this work, through an emphasis on caring, putting our relationships with community members at the centre of everything we do, and doing, employing embodied and collective approaches to knowledge construction. We illustrate how the caring values of attentiveness, responsiveness, and responsibility have guided our work. This heart-centred approach draws our attention to the continuing legacy of our discipline’s colonial history and the institutional structures of academia that work against a community-engaged practice. It calls us to work to shift the priorities of our discipline and the institutional and legislative contexts within which we work so that they better support more holistic, caring scholarship that promotes social justice.
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Inuvialuit are the Inuit of Canada’s western Arctic.
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Canada’s residential school system, which began in the 1880s and continued in some areas until 1996, was a government-sponsored religious education programme designed to assimilate Indigenous youth into Euro-Canadian society. Operated by the State and Christian Churches, it removed Indigenous children from their home communities, forbid them from speaking their own languages, and promoted conversion to Christianity.
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We are grateful to everyone in Sachs Harbour who shared with us their perspectives, knowledge, time, and friendship. Thank you to the Sachs Harbour Hunters and Trappers Committee, Sachs Harbour Community Corporation, Sachs Harbour Recreation Centre, Parks Canada, and Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre for supporting our work. We also thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Polar Continental Shelf Program, the Northern Scientific Training Committee, and the Aurora Research Institute for funding. Lisa is grateful to the Inuvialuit Living History team for the work already done and the work to come. Our thanks to Kisha and Natasha for organizing the wonderful SAA session in Vancouver, to Sonya for her thoughtful comments as discussant, and the Heart Collective (Kisha, Natasha, Sonya, and Jane) for steering this volume through the editorial process.
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Hodgetts, L., Kelvin, L. (2020). At the Heart of the Ikaahuk Archaeology Project. In: Supernant, K., Baxter, J.E., Lyons, N., Atalay, S. (eds) Archaeologies of the Heart. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36350-5_7
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