SEARCH - Sinixt Existence: Archaeology, Revitalization, Cultural Heritage
Project Overview
SEARCH is planned to be a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional archaeology, cultural heritage, and linguistics project with the focus of documenting an indigenous First Nations People who are unrecognized by the Canadian Government. The project has the goal of documenting and preserving the cultural heritage of the Sinixt First Nation who despite their continued presence in the Pacific Northwest were pronounced extinct in 1956 by the Canadian Government. Documentation and preservation will be conducted through multimedia technology including film and audio recording of interviews and digitizing historical and ethnographic records. Because the scope of the project spans from the archaeological past to contemporary issues facing the Sinixt Nation today, specialists in fields including, but not limited to, archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, documentary film making and visual anthropology will be incorporated into SEARCH.
Project Participants
Nathan Goodale
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Hamilton College
Alissa Nauman
Academic Office Assistant for Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, Physics and Psychology
Hamilton College
Leora Bar-el
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology
University of Montana
Janet Simons
Associate Director, Instructional Technology
Co-Director, Digital Humanities Initiative
Hamilton College
David Bailey
Associate Professor of Geoscience
Hamilton College
Lori Barkley
Instructor of Anthropology
Peace Studies in School of University Arts and Sciences Selkirk College
Erica Kowsz ('11)
Senior Archaeology Major
Hamilton College
Susannah Wales ('13)
Sophomore Archaeology Major
Hamilton College
Catherine Prescott ('12)
Junior Archaeology concentrator
Hamilton College