<p>By preserving and celebrating Black heritage sites and telling their stories, archaeology can revise history in a way that includes the stories of the diverse individuals and communities who contributed to our modern identities. While archaeological studies which highlight these stories are increasingly undertaken, community-driven research remains rare in and for Black communities. This is further complicated by an overarching colonial narrative that Black heritage exists primarily in nineteenth-century eastern Canada but not in the western provinces, placing the latter histories at further risk of erasure. Using community-based research at the homestead of one of the prairies early Black residents (John Ware 1888–1902) at Millarville, Northwest Territories (later Alberta) as an illustrative study, this paper extends methodologies developed within Indigenous archaeologies to a new context to demonstrate how researchers can undertake community-based archaeological studies of Black heritage and begin to correct the historical erasures that result from settler colonialism. Further, we demonstrate how amplifying diverse voices in historical narratives impacts the present by creating a sense of belonging for diverse communities in a common past, as anecdotes from our work with community show. By applying community-based research methods in the study of Black heritage, we respond to the increasing interrogation of dominant historical narratives in recent years and demonstrate how the celebration of Black heritage sites can combat historical erasures.</p>