Dr. Schuldenrein is joined by Dr. Joe Watkins, one of the foremost voices and leading advocates for indigenous and native affairs and involvement in American archaeology. Dr Watkins, a member of the Choctaw tribe of Oklahoma, reflects on the beginning of his career and his personal development as one of the only Native American Ph.D-holding archaeologists in the 1960s and 1970s. During his early days as an archaeologist, when native involvement in archaeology was in a very nascent form and there were no established career pathways for native archaeologists, Dr. Watkins carved out a career and
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