The over-arching goal of our project is to find ways to more fully honour, respect, and protect Indigenous heritage. 

 

We focus our project on Xwe'etay / Lasqueti Island, in the Salish Sea of British Columbia, as it is a microcosm for larger heritage issues in British Columbia and beyond. 

 

Our team is a collective of people from Indigenous and settler communities who have heritage connections to Xwe’etay/Lasqueti and who are committed to co-creating a better model for heritage recognition and protection. 

 

By participating in workshops, informal discussions, and “doing archaeology” we seek to co-create a model for community-based archaeology that can be used on Lasqueti and in other rural communities.