Publications: Books

2020 Kisha Supernant, Jane Eva Baxter, Natasha Lyons and Sonya Atalay (Eds). Archaeologies of the Heart. Springer, New York.

2013 Natasha Lyons. Where the Wind Blows Us: Practicing Critical Community Archaeology in the Canadian North. The Archaeology of Colonialism in Native North America Series, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Publications: Peer-reviewed articles

2024 Natasha Lyons, Letitia Pokiak, Lisa Hodgetts, Beverly Amos, Michael O’Rourke, Shirley Elias, Albert Elias & Charles Arnold. Inuvialuit Sivuniksait Kappiangaqiyuaq. The Urgent Question of Inuvialuit Futures & its relation to the care of ancestors and their belongings. Handbook of Oral Traditions in Archaeology, edited by Kisha Supernant, George Nicholas, Margaret Bruchac and Andrew Martindale, pp. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

2023 Sean Desjardins, Natasha Lyons and Mari Kleist (eds). Inuit Voices/Voix Inuit: Community-Based Archaeology across the North American Arctic. Special Issue of Études Inuit Studies 46(2).

2023 Ethel-Jean Gruben, Ashley Piskor, Mervin Joe, Lena Kotokak, Elizabeth Edgerton, Natasha Lyons, Lisa Hodgetts, Kate Hennessy, David Stewart, Charles Arnold, Chris von Szombathy and Jasmine Lukuku. ‘You help us tell our story’: Making Inuvialuit Living Histories in Digital and Real-Time. Inuit Voices, Special Issue of Études Inuit Studies 46(2):111-132.

2023 Natasha Lyons, Tanja Hoffmann, Roma Leon, Mike Leon, Michael Blake, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong and Sandra Peacock. How can Archaeobotany be put into Service of Katzie Food Sovereignty? BC Studies 218: 19-45.

2023 Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Natasha Lyons, Alex McAlvay, Morgan Ritchie, Dana Lepofsky and Michael Blake. Historical Ecology of Forest Garden Management in Ts’msyen Lahkhyuup and Beyond. People and Ecosystems 19:1, 2160823, DOI: 10.1080/26395916.2022.2160823.

2022 Tanja Hoffmann, Natasha Lyons, Michael Blake, Andrew Martindale, Debbie Miller, Cynthia Larbey. Wapato as an important staple carbohydrate in the Northwest Coast diet: A response to Martin. American Antiquity 87(3): 617-19.

2022 Natasha Lyons, Lisa Hodgetts, Mervin Joe, Ashley Piskor, Renie Arey, Jason Lau, Rebecca Goodwin, Walter Bennett, Cassidy Lennie-Ipana, Mataya Gillis, Hayven Elanik, Angelina Joe, Starr Elanik, David Stewart and Arlene Kogiak. Enduring Social Communities of the Inuvialuit: From the Yukon North Slope to the Circumpolar Stage. In The Inuit World, edited by Pamela Stern, pp. 34-51. Routledge, New York.

2021 Natasha Lyons, Tanja Hoffmann, Debbie Miller, Andrew Martindale, Kenneth Ames, and Michael Blake. Were the Ancient Coast Salish Farmers? A Story of Origins. American Antiquity 86(3):504-525. doi:10.1017/aaq.2020.115.

2021 Gamble, Lynn, Cheryl Claassen, Jelmer Eerkens, Douglas Kennett, Patricia Lambert, Matthew Liebmann, Natasha Lyons, Barbara Mills, Christopher Rodning, Tsim Schneider, Stephen Silliman, Susan Alt, Douglas Bamforth, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Anna Marie Prentiss, and Torben Rick. Finding Archaeological Relevance during a Pandemic and What Comes After. American Antiquity doi:10.1017/aaq.2020.94

2020 Lisa Hodgetts, Kisha Supernant, Natasha Lyons, John R. Welch. Broadening #MeToo: Tracking Dynamics in Canadian Archaeology through a Diversity and Equity Survey. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 42(2):20-47.

2020 Natasha Lyons and Kisha Supernant. Introduction to an Archaeology of the Heart. In Archaeologies of the Heart, edited by Kisha Supernant, Jane Eva Baxter, Natasha Lyons and Sonya Atalay, pp. 1-19, Springer, New York.

2020 Natasha Lyons, Bill Angelbeck, James Frank, Francis Rodney Garcia, Tim Spinks, Patrick Michell, Ian Cameron, Adrian Sanders, Jon Sheppard, Dave Hall, Fraser Bonner, and Chris Arnett. The Bounty of the Ancient Nlaka’pamux: Ancestral foodways and landscape use along Kwoiek Creek, southwestern British Columbia. In Of Housepits and Homes: 21st Century Perspectives on Houses and Settlements in the Columbia-Fraser Plateau Past, edited by Molly Carney, James Brown, and Dakota Wallen, pp. 178-202. Journal of Northwest Anthropology Memoir 19.

2020 David Schaepe, Natasha Lyons, Adrienne S. Chan, Andy Phillips and Kate Hennessy. The Sq’éwlets Youth Origins Experience: Providing Tangible and Intangible Experiences of Ancestral Places and Belongings in Supporting Wellness among Indigenous Youth and Community. In Material Connections: Exploring the role of objects in learning and wellbeing, edited by Thomas Kador and Helen Chatterjee. Routledge, UK.

2018 Michael B. Toffolo, Morgan Ritchie, Ian Sellers, Jesse Morin, Natasha Lyons Megan Caldwell, and Francesco Berna. Combustion features from a short-lived intermittent occupation at the DjRr-4 rock shelter, British Columbia: the microstratigraphic data. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 23 (2019): 646-661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.11.034

2018 Kate Hennessy, Natasha Lyons, Dave Schaepe, Michael Blake, Andy Phillips, Clarence Pennier, Reese Muntean, and Aynur Kadir. Collaborative Digital Curation and Recursive Publics: the Making of Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley (2017). Museums and the Web.

2018 Natasha Lyons, Anna Prentiss, Sandra Peacock & Bill Angelbeck. Some like it hot: Exploring the status of roasting features in southern British Columbia. Inlet: Contributions to Archaeology 1: 1-13. https://journal.archpress.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/inlet/issue/current

2018 Natasha Lyons and Susan Blair. Looking Both Ways at Community-Oriented Archaeology in Canada. Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Archaeology, ‘50 Down’, 42(1): 172-183.

2018 Natasha Lyons, Tanja Hoffmann, Debbie Miller, Stephanie Huddlestan, Roma Leon and Kelly Squires. Katzie & the Wapato: An Archaeological Love Story. Archaeologies 14(1):7-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-018-9333-2

2017 Natasha Lyons, Anna Prentiss, Naoko Endo, and Kristen Barnett. Plant use practices of an historic St’át’imc household, Bridge River, British Columbia. In The Last House at Bridge River: The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Household in British Columbia during the Fur Trade Period, edited by Anna Marie Prentiss, pp. 150-164 University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

2017 Natasha Lyons. Comment on ‘Archaeology as Therapy: Connecting Belongings, Knowledge, Time, Place and Well-being. David M. Schaepe, Bill Angelbeck, David Snook, and John R. Welch. Current Anthropology 58(4):520-21.

2017 Natasha Lyons and Morgan Ritchie. The Archaeology of Camas Production and Exchange on the Northwest Coast: with Evidence from a Sts’ailes (Chehalis) Village on the Harrison River, BC. Journal of Ethnobiology 37(2): 346-367.

2017 Lyons, Natasha. Plant Production Practices of Ancient First Nations of the Lower Fraser River Region. In Archaeology of the Lower Fraser River Region, edited by Mike Rousseau, pp. 237-246. Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC.

2016 Natasha Lyons, Dave Schaepe, Kate Hennessy, Mike Blake, Clarence Pennier, John Welch, Kyle McIntosh, Andy Phillips, Betty Charlie, Clifford Hall, Lucille Hall, Aynur Kadir, Alicia Point, Vi Pennier, Reginald Phillips, Reese Muntean, Johnny Williams Jr., John Williams Sr., Joseph Chapman and Colin Pennier Sharing deep history as digital knowledge: an ontology of the Sq’éwlets Website Project. Journal of Social Archaeology 16(3): 359–384.

2016 Hoffmann, Tanja, Natasha Lyons, Debbie Miller, Alejandra Diaz, Amy Homan, Stephanie Huddlestan, Roma Leon. Engineered feature used to enhance gardening at mid-late Holocene site on the Pacific Northwest Coast. Science Advances 2, e1601282 (2016). URL: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/12/e1601282

2016 Martindale, Andrew, Natasha Lyons, George Nicholas, Bill Angelbeck, Sean P. Connaughton, Colin Grier, James Herbert, Mike Leon, Yvonne Marshall, Angela Piccini, David M. Schaepe, Kisha Supernant, Gary Warrick. Archaeology as Partnerships in Practice: A Reply to La Salle and Hutchings. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 40(1): 181-204.

2016 Lyons, Natasha. Archaeology & Native Northerners: The Rise of Community-Based Practice across the North American Arctic. In Oxford Handbook of Arctic Archaeology, edited by T. Max Friesen and Owen Mason, pp. 197-219. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

2016 Hennessy, Kate and Natasha Lyons. Representing Natural Heritage in Digital Space: from the National Museum of Natural History to Inuvialuit Living History. In Shifting Interpretations of Natural Heritage, edited by Ian Convery & Peter Davis, pp. 275-288. Heritage Matters Series, Boydell & Brewer, New York.

2014 Martindale, Andrew and Natasha Lyons, guest editors. Community-Oriented Archaeology. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 38(2):425-433.

2014 Lyons, Natasha and Yvonne Marshall. Memory, Practice, Telling Community. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 38(2):496-518.

2014 Lyons, Natasha. Localized Critical Theory as an Expression of Community Archaeology Practice: with a case study from Inuvialuit Elders of the Canadian Western Arctic. American Antiquity 79(2):183-203.

2013 Lyons, Natasha. Review of ‘Field Seasons: Reflections on Career Paths and Research in American Archaeology’, by Anna Marie Prentiss. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 37(2):340-344.

2013 Lepofsky, Dana and Natasha Lyons. The Secret Past Life of Plants: Palaeoethnobotany in British Columbia. BC Studies, special issue edited by Nancy Turner and Dana Lepofsky, Ethnobotany in British Columbia: Plants and People in a Changing World. Issue 179: 39- 83.

2013 Hennessy, Kate, Natasha Lyons, Mervin Joe, Stephen Loring, and Charles Arnold. The Inuvialuit Living History Project: Digital Return as the Forging of Relationships between Institutions, People, and Data. Museum Anthropology Review 7(1-2): 44-73.

2011 Lyons, Natasha. Creating space for negotiating the nature and outcomes of collaborative research projects with Aboriginal communities. Special issue of Études/Inuit Studies on Intellectual Property and Ethics, Vol. 35(1-2):83-105.

2011 Dawson, Peter, Richard Levy, and Natasha Lyons. “Breaking the Fourth Wall”: 3D Virtual Worlds as Tools for Knowledge Repatriation in Archaeology. Journal of Social Archaeology 11(3):387-402.

2011 Prentiss, Anna, James Chatters, Natasha Lyons, and Lucille Harris. Archaeology in the Middle Fraser Canyon, British Columbia: Changing Perspectives on Paleoecology and Emergent Cultural Complexity. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 35(1): 143-174.

2010 Lyons, Natasha, Peter Dawson, Matthew Walls, Donald Uluadluak, Louis Angalik, Mark Kalluak, Philip Kigusiutuak, Luke Kiniksi, Joe Karetak and Luke Suluk. Person, Place, Memory, Thing: How Inuit Elders are informing archaeological practice in the Canadian North. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 34(1):1-31.

2010 Lyons, Natasha. The Wisdom of Elders: Inuvialuit social memories of continuity and change in the 20th century. Arctic Anthropology 47(1): 22-38.

2009 Koutouki, Konstantia and Natasha Lyons. Canadian Inuit Speak to Climate Change: Inuit Perceptions on the Adaptability of Land Claims Agreements to accommodate environmental change. Wisconsin International Law Journal 27(3): 516-542.

2009 Lyons, Natasha. Inuvialuit Rising: The Evolution of Inuvialuit Identities in the Mackenzie Delta. Special edition edited by Matthew Betts, Katherine Reedy-Maschner, and Owen Mason. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 7(2):63-79.

2007 Lyons, Natasha and Trevor Orchard. Sourcing archaeobotanical remains: taphonomic

2007 Lyons, Natasha and Trevor Orchard. Sourcing archaeobotanical remains: taphonomic insights from a midden analysis on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 31(1): 28-54.

2007 Prentiss, Anna, Natasha Lyons, Melissa Burns, Lucille Harris, and Terrance Godin. The Emergence of Status Inequality in Intermediate Scale Societies: A Demographic and Socio-Economic History of the Keatley Creek Site, British Columbia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 26:299-327.

2006 Lyons, Natasha. Book Review of ‘Keeping It Living,’ edited by D. Deur and N. Turner. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 30(2):319-323.

2003 Lepofsky, Dana and Natasha Lyons. Modeling Ancient Plant Use on the Northwest Coast: towards an understanding of mobility and sedentism. Journal of Archaeological Science 30:1357-1371.

2003 Lepofsky, Dana, Natasha Lyons, and Madonna L. Moss. The Use of Driftwood on the North Pacific Coast: An Example from Southeast Alaska. Journal of Ethnobiology 23(1):125- 141.

2001 Lepofsky, Dana, Madonna L. Moss, and Natasha Lyons. The Unrealized Potential of Paleoethnobotany in the Archaeology of Northwestern North America: Perspectives from Cape Addington Rockshelter, Southeast Alaska. Arctic Anthropology 38(1):48-59.

2000 Lepofsky, D., M. Blake, D. Brown, S. Morrison, N. Oakes, and N. Lyons. The Archaeology of the Scowlitz Site, Southwestern British Columbia. Journal of Field Archaeology 27(4): 391-416.

Other Publications: Popular press articles, trade journals, book reviews

2022 Natasha Lyons, Roma Leon, Jasmine Peone, Sarah Hazell, Josh Dent and Tanja Hoffmann. Decolonizing CRM is about the power to decide. The SAA Archaeological Record, November 2022. https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=768625&article_id=4385025&view=articleBrowser

2021 Natasha Lyons, Lisa Hodgetts, Ashley Piskor, Ethel-Jean Gruben, Elizabeth Edgerton, Mervin Joe, Beverly Amos, Lena Kotokak, Kate Hennessy, Chris von Szombathy, Jasmine Lukuku, Chuck Arnold, and David Stewart. What’s new with the Inuvialuit Living History Project? Tusaayaksat, Fall 2021.

2020 Lisa Hodgetts, Natasha Lyons, Renie Arey, Walter Bennett, Mervin Joe, Hayven Elanik, Starr Elanik, Mataya Gillis, Rebecca Goodwin, Angelina Joe, Arlene Kogiak, Cassidy LennieIpana, Jason Lau, Ashley Piskor, David Stewart. Inuvialuit Living History on the Land. Above & Beyond, In Flight Magazine for First Air. Fall 2020.

2020 Natasha Lyons and Lisa Hodgetts. Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: The Health and Wellbeing of Ancestral Inuvialuit on Banks Island. Tusaayaksat, Summer 2020.

2020 Lisa Hodgetts and Natasha Lyons. Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Continuing a Proud Inuvialuit Artistic Tradition. Tusaayaksat, Spring 2020.

2019 David Schaepe, Natasha Lyons, John Welch with Dalton Silver and the S’ólh Téméxw Stewardship Alliance. Knowledge Creation for Advancing Reconciliation through Collaborative Resource Stewardship and Shared Land-Use Decision-Making: A Case of Indigenous-Crown Relations in Southwest British Columbia. Position Paper for SSHRC Connection Grant Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation.

2019 Natasha Lyons, Kisha Supernant, and John Welch. What are the Prospects for an Archaeology of Heart? The SAA Archaeological Record 19(2): 6-9.

2018 Natasha Lyons. Prospects for Palaeoethnobotanical Work in British Columbia. BC Association of Professional Archaeologists Bulletin. August 2018: 4-6.

2017 Natasha Lyons. Review of ‘Some Useful Wild Plants: A Foraging Guide to Food and Medicine from Nature’ by Dan Jason. Ormsby Review: http://bcbooklook.com/2017/09/13/a-heroin-the-garden/

2017 David Schaepe, Colin Pennier, Kate Hennessy and Natasha Lyons. A Story of Belongings, Worldview, and Teachings: Digital Sq’éwlets. Proceedings of the Cultural Collisions Conference, Future of the Object, University of Melbourne, pp. 62-67. Conference, Future of the Object, University of Melbourne, pp. 62-67.

2016 Natasha Lyons, Morgan Ritchie, Chelsey Armstrong, and Dana Lepofsky. A Gift from the Ancestors: The Legacy of Red Elderberry Use in a Tsleil-waututh Plant Processing Area. The Midden 46(3-4): 7-13.

2015 Review of ‘Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge’ by Nancy Turner. BC Studies Online: http://bcstudies.com/?q=book-reviews/ancient-pathways-ancestral-knowledgeethnobotany-and-ecological-wisdom-indigenous

2012 Lyons, Natasha, Ian Cameron, Tanja Hoffmann & Debbie Miller. Many Shades of Grey: Dispelling some Myths about the Nature & Status of CRM in British Columbia. A Response to La Salle & Hutchings. The Midden 44(3/4):6-8.

2012 Lyons, Natasha, Kate Hennessy, Mervin Joe, Charles Arnold, Albert Elias, Stephen Loring, and James Pokiak. The Inuvialuit Living History Project. The SAA Archaeological Record 12(4): 39-42.

2011 Natasha Lyons. Memory & Inuvialuit Elders. Tusaayaksat No. 32: 16-19.

2011 Natasha Lyons, Andy Phillips, Dave Schaepe, Betty Charlie, Clifford Hall, and Kate Hennessy. The Scowlitz Site Online: Launch of the Scowlitz Artifact Assemblage Project. The Midden 43(2):11-14.

2011 Lyons, Natasha. Recommendations for Palaeoethnobotanical Research Design & Sampling. BC Association of Professional Archaeologists, Winter Bulletin. February 2011:5-6.

2010 Loring, Stephen, Natasha Lyons, and Maia LePage. Inuvialuit Encounter: Confronting the past for the future. An IPinCH Case Study. Arctic Studies Center Newsletter No. 17: 30-32.

2010 Lyons, Natasha. An Inuvialuit Journey to the Smithsonian. Up Here magazine. March 2010.

2009 Terendy, Susan, Natasha Lyons, Michelle Janse-Smekal, Editors. Que(e)rying Archaeology: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Chacmool Conference. University of Calgary Press with the Chacmool Society, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary.

2009 La Salle, Marina and Natasha Lyons. The 2008 British Columbia Archaeology Forum: In Review. The Midden 40(4): 3-5.

2008 Koutouki, Konstantia and Natasha Lyons. Canadian Inuit Speak to Climate Change: Inuit Perceptions on the Adaptability of Land Claims Agreements to accommodate environmental change. Working paper for CISDL ArcticNet Arctic Climate Law Project: Strengthening Climate Law Cooperation, Compliance & Coherence for the Arctic. Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Montreal.

2008 Lyons, Natasha and Rudy Reimer. Indigenous Archaeology: by, with and for Aboriginal Peoples. In Archaeology, 5th edition, edited by D. Hurst Thomas, R. Kelly, and P. Dawson. Thompson Wadsworth Publishing, Belmont, CA.

2005 Lyons, Natasha. Review of Nancy Turner’s ‘Plants of Haida Gwaii.’ The Midden 36(3): 9-10.

2005 Manseau, Micheline, Lyle Dick, Natasha Lyons. People, caribou, and muskoxen on Northern Ellesmere Island: Historical Interactions and Population Ecology, ca. 4300 BP to Present (booklet). Parks Canada: Winnipeg.

2004 Manseau, Micheline, Lyle Dick, Natasha Lyons, Christian St-Pierre, and Jennifer Keeney. Ecological History of Peary Caribou and Muskox on Ellesmere Island, ca. 4300 BP to present. Research Links 12(1) 1, 4-8.

2004 Lepofsky, Dana, Madonna Moss, and Natasha Lyons. Archaeobotanical Remains. In Archaeological Investigation of Cape Addington Rockshelter: Human Occupation of the Archaeological Investigation of Cape Addington Rockshelter: Human Occupation of the Rugged Seacoast on the Outer Prince of Wales Archipelago, Alaska. University of Oregon Occasional Paper No. 63. Department of Anthropology and the Museum of Natural History: Eugene.

2000 Lyons, Natasha. Review of Nancy Turner’s ‘Plant Technology of First Peoples in British Columbia’. The Midden 32(1): 12.

1999 Lyons, Natasha and Tony Vanags. Scowlitz News: Report on the 1998 Excavations. The Midden 30(3): 6-7.

1997 Lyons, Natasha. The 1997 SFU Field Season at Scowlitz. The Midden 29(3):2-3

Note: Please feel free to contact Natasha for electronic copies of articles and resources.