Cultural Resource Ceremonies

Indigenous Cultural Resource Ceremonies looks at the relationship that Indigenous people have with archaeological sites and with sacred places. What are the spiritual connections that Indigenous people have with the land, waters and even with the stars? The connections with the cycles of the moon. In Ojibwe culture there is a shared relationship with our communities, Leech Lake as an example. Places within our communities. How is this relationship defined within modern archaeology and cultural resource management today? Or is it? It is the focus of these relationships and the connections to these places that we originate from. Villages, communities, towns, and even the cities. Places are a way in which we identify ourselves, in Ojibwe culture that is the traditional way to introduce one’s self. Your dodem and where you’re from. Just like the artifacts that lay beneath the ground. What is it that is there? What is the type of artifact or place in which is found? How old is the age of the artifact or site? Where you’re from, who you are and the community in which you are from? This is one of the many ways that indigenous cultural resource ceremony is defined within everyday lives of Indigenous people. Archaeologists/Anthropologist have been interpreting our past and our cultures without having a clear understanding of whom we really are as a people and have little or no understanding of our spiritual beliefs. Even our connections that we have to Indigenous Cultural Resource Ceremonies. Annishinabe