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Elroy White
Elroy White鈥檚 (Q虛铆x虒itasu) interest in archaeology began at the drum log at a potlatch when he heard of his ancestral ties to his tribal territories.
These places are now called archaeological sites, but in reality, they are actually physical places of 艂谩xv谩i, rights of descent. He comes from the N虛煤l谩w虛铆tx虒v tribe of the Ha铆艂zaqv Nation.
Since 2006, he is the owner and operator of Central Coast Archaeology, an independent First Nation consulting company. He specializes in work in his own territory. His MA (2006) focused on the ha铆艂zaqv perspective of an ancient fishing technology, stone fish traps and the interrelationships between salmon and the smokehouse days. As an archaeologist, he was academically trained in method and theory and to analyze and to interpret. However, he prefers to 鈥榥煤sa鈥� - to tell a story using these methods and theories through an approach called M虛峁嚸簒vit (to unite research approaches).
He hopes to inspire future First Nations youth to pursue academic opportunities so they could rewrite their history and turn things around to make it right on their own terms.