ABSTRACT
The author is a member of the Squamish Nation and have been working in archaeology for fifteen years. He is interested in the archaeology of the Northwest Coast, Plateau, and sub-Arctic regions of western Canada. In particular, he study cultural landscapes, place-names, oral history, lithic technology and lithic sources, pre-contact settlement and subsistence patterns, and past, present, and future First Nations and provincial land-use and resource-management planning. In all these areas of research, he endeavor to increase the involvement of First Nations people in the methodology and theoretical development of archaeology. Having mostly grown up across many cities in Canada and away from Squamish Territory, he was outside of his culture for the first twelve years of his life. He was not sure who he was or where he came from. The schools that he attended glossed over Native history and focused on the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and especially the past 200 years of Canadian history.
