ABSTRACT
Within the scope of Arctic anthropology, the collection of oral histories is by no means new. Ethnographies about the Arctic have relied on oral histories for centuries. However, the collection of these oral histories has too often been rooted in colonial logics. Developing a methodology to examine nonbinary gender in the archaeological record was one of the most complex problems involved in this research from a methodological perspective due to the fact that this was a largely unexplored area of research and very few archaeologists have tackled non-binary gender at all. Many oral historians will tell that the best interviews are those in which the interviewer does relatively little talking and where the direction of the interview unfolds organically. Meaningful political work starts on the ground, and it starts most often with people who experience marginalization standing up and advocating for themselves, their rights, and their needs.
