ABSTRACT
As both a Ngarrindjeri person and an archaeologist, my position within any research project involves different dimensions to those experienced by non-Indigenous students, archaeologists and researchers. I have realised that as an Indigenous person I need to expose part of who I am in order to teach others, including researchers, about the complexities which surround Indigenous peoples in the broadest sense. Explicitly exploring the research process and the way I approach it is an important aspect of working with my community and follows the approach of many other Australian-based archaeologists (Colley 2002; Pardoe 1990; Ulm 2006; Wallis, Hemming, and Wilson 2006; Webb 1987).
