ABSTRACT
Archaeologists have been increasingly compelled to consider not only who owns the past but also who constructs the past. The future of Indigenous archaeologies may be glimpsed, therefore, in at least three distinct ways. By reflecting backward, we can examine the relationships that produced certain kinds of evidence and knowledge, and the stories archaeologists have been telling themselves and us about the Indigenous past. By examining where we stand at this moment, setting aside colonial ideologies and listening to what Indigenous peoples have to say about archaeology (as the authors in this volume have done), we can consider a more holistic range of evidence and interpretation. Looking forward, with the intent of incorporating the Indigenous as full partners in the archaeological project, we can imagine how new relationships and increasingly multicultural and multivalent discursive exchanges might reveal and shape other knowledges, other stories.
