On the banks of the Sturgeon River, aspiring archaeologists from the University of Alberta are digging into Indigenous history — but for the first time in years, they’re able to get their hands dirty in the process.
The field school, offered by the university’s Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, is set up at River Lots 23 and 24, located near the grain elevator park in St. Albert, just outside Edmonton. These long, narrow pieces of land that stretched to the water were home to Métis and French-Canadian settlers.
The field school, brought back this year after being put on hiatus by the pandemic, is about “centring the
