Sandie Dielissen

Research Interests:

Indigenous archaeology and traditional knowledge, First Nations Studies, Northern Plains and Pacific Northwest Coast regions, proto-contact and contact period, intellectual property, ethnobotany

Master's Research:

My Masters research is focused on understanding how changes resulting from externally imposed institutions, namely the residential school, affected the Piikani First Nation.  Specifically, I will address how the establishment of the Victoria Jubilee Home (aka Peigan Indian Residential School) influenced the social structures of the Piikani community, and, in particular, what role the change in material culture introduced through the residential school played in reshaping Piikani culture during the early reserve era.

Honours Research:  Mine, Yours, or Ours? The Intellectual Property of Archaeology in British Columbia

Presentations:

Dielissen, S. and E. Yellowhorn

2009     Teaching a School to Talk: Historical Archaeology of the Victoria Jubilee Home, Piikani Reserve, Alberta.  Poster presented at the Canadian Archaeological Association 2009 Conference, Thunder Bay, Ontario. May 13-17, 2009.

Dielissen, S.

2008     Archaeology and Intellectual Property: Results of a Survey of British Columbian Archaeologists.  Presented at the 2008 BC Archaeology Forum, hosted by the Sto:Lo Research and Resource Management Centre, Chilliwack, BC. October 28, 2008.