ABSTRACT
I began doing archaeological fieldwork in 1964 as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin. It was more than two decades later that I had the first experience of my professional career working with Native Americans at Inyan Ceyaka Atonwan (Village at the Rapids; also known as Little Rapids), a nineteenth-century Wahpeton Dakota village, located in what is now south-central Minnesota. The work was undertaken in the context of a University field program and before the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) in 1990, though the project was certainly influenced by the political issues and struggles underlying this landmark legislation (see Bray 1996).
