Thank you for hanging with us throughout Dig This Season 2! In this, the season’s final episode, Archaeologist Kay Jollymore talks with Jenny about mentorship!

From her start in the Cariboo area and throughout her career, Kay celebrates the generous people who made a difference in her career. She shares the value of becoming a mentor, how to be a good one, mentor, different kinds of mentors including the benefits of horizontal collegial mentorships.

Looking at in-the-field and in-the-office formal and ad-hoc training, Kay and Jenny discuss the responsibilities of both the mentor and mentee, but also how professional associations, businesses and clients can and should support and make space for this work. And the importance of mentorship to building capacity in First Nations communities to support their control of their own heritage materials.

No matter what, mentorship is deeply enriching, rewarding and so often, a joyful experience!

Celebrating our team this Gratitude Season, each Kleanza archaeologist chose to discuss a subject that was important to them. In Episode 21, Jenny talks with archaeologist Kevin Haugrud about women in archaeology!

Kevin shares his gratitude for all the women he has worked with and for, in his career. Touching on mining, oil and other industry platforms, camp culture, toxic masculinity, healthy company values and fatherhood, he observes that his mentors, colleagues and bosses have been primarily women.

Kevin talks about how their perspectives, teaching and management styles, values and priorities have impacted his work and personal life in such a positive way.

Gratitude Season continues with Episode 20. Today Jenny, and Kleanza archaeologist Manda Palmer gently, with compassion and vulnerability, have a very difficult but important discussion about harassment, abuse, rape, sexual assault, mental health and burnout in the practice of archaeology…and our obligation, to ourselves now, and to the next generation.

Again, it feels like we're just scratching the surface, but it’s a start. And we touch on a few solutions too. The content will be alarming to some, and we have included more detailed information in the Show Notes, as well as resources, should you need them. Most importantly, please take care of yourself.

SHOW NOTES:

To our dear listeners, this episode contains content that may be triggering. Please check the show notes for specific time code indicators and for a list of resources, should you need them. Most importantly, take care of yourself.

From 17:30 onward, the conversation centers around sensitive issues until the end of the episode.
Here are specific timecodes and information:

• 17:30 - begins the talk about sexual abuse, assault, rape, harassment and substance abuse
• 20:49 - talk about perpetrators of harassment
• 22:00 - talk about trauma and traumatic experience
• 24:15 - talk about power relationships and gender
• 25:29 - talk about signs of trauma and breaking cycles
• 26:28 - talk about trauma and somatic therapy
• 29:01 - talk about supporting younger generation
• 30:38 - talk about being trauma-informed
• 31:00 - talk about harassment and reporting
• 33:20 - talk about safety in industry culture and mental health
• 35:50 - talk about body autonomy
• 36:11 - talk about Indigenous trauma

RESOURCE LIST:

• Texting support for survivors: https://www.webelievesurvivors.ca/
• Talking on phone: crisis line 1-877-544-6424
• Vesta resource library: https://www.vestasit.com/resources-library/
• National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.HOPE (4673)
• RAINN online.rainn.org
• Crisis Resources https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/crisis-resources
• Resources by province: https://canadianwomen.org/support-services/
• https://cpa.ca/psychology-works-fact-sheet-workplace-burnout/
• https://www.traumacanada.org/resources/links-and-resources/
• https://www.nwac.ca/assets-knowledge-centre/Final-Trauma-Informed-Culturally-Appropriate-Approaches-in-the-Workplace-Final.pdf

Today Jenny hosts Kleanza archaeologist, Gary Brewer, to talk about how differently archaeology, both federally and provincially, is handled across our country. Provinces don’t all do things the same way?! Whaaaaaat?!

Gary has worked across Canada and the US, with expertise in CRM, Academia and Regulation. He is imminently qualified, but also able to offer a rare combination of knowledge, experience and perspective regarding the challenges posed by such differing ways and views of managing archaeology and heritage. Is a consistent federal and provincial legislative approach even needed? Who benefits from a system change or from the status quo? Everyone can agree on the significance of some sites - but how they are to be managed is another story.

Jenny and Gary explore some really tangible solutions to the issue. It’s beginning to feel like the needle has flipped as practitioners, the public, and lawmakers, are all having the same discussion. A cause for optimism? We hope so…!

In Episode 18, Jenny is joined by archaeologist Mirjana McIntyre, for a serious discussion about working with First Nations in their territories. About involving, listening and acknowledging what Indigenous communities want. About the importance of developing deep and respectful relationships. What meaningful consultation really means. And tangible ideas to empower First Nations, ensuring that they have sovereignty over their land, sacred sites and archaeological finds.

This begins with understanding and acknowledging the impact that colonial systems have had and still have on communities, and our responsibility as allies to move the practice of archaeology forward, to put culture and heritage first.

Gratitude Season continues!

Today, our archaeologist, Tannis Wilson, talks about the importance of preserving organic materials and wet site finds, as well as building this capacity in Indigenous communities. She does this through the lens of caring for and preserving 2000+ year old fishing weirs.

Archaeologists are at a bit of a trust deficit when it comes to communities, because of the terrible history. Sharing knowledge to inspire future generations, and always honouring the cultural significance and value placed on finds by each Nation, can do a lot to earn that trust back.

Watch Since Time Immemorial, the short film Jenny and Tannis discussed in this episode.

Welcome to Episode 16!

Today our archaeologist, Curt Carbonell, uses his experiences in the military and as a distiller and mixologist to explore the subject of public outreach. The perception of archaeology as - a cerebral, exclusive, academic pursuit by primarily settler gatekeepers in ivory towers - needs to change. Or we won’t be able to attract (very much needed) new students, or garner public understanding and support for our work.

A reckoning with our historical, inherited image is urgent. Jenny and Curt explore tangible actions that could change the whole landscape of archaeology and who is practicing archaeology.

This week we begin our GRATITUDE SEASON. It’s been a rough couple of years with COVID, and we wanted to celebrate our wonderful team and talk about subjects that matter to them. And do it in a way that’s not a client conversation, or getting trucks out the door, or figuring out what happened with the shovels!

Archaeologist Suzy Carruthers shares her experience with and thoughtful insight on the subject of repositories and Indigenous Museology.

Changes to BC legislation are being driven by UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) and the adoption of DRIPA (The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act). She reminds us that repatriation is important and urgent. And museums in BC, Canada, and indeed all over the world, have a template for how this can work.