Second Indigenous Inter-Congress November 8 - 12, 2005

Waipapa Marae, University of Auckland, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand

The uses and abuses of archaeology for Indigenous peoples

Nau mai haere mai ki nga huihuinga tangata o te ao.

(Welcome to this gathering of the people of the world!)

Online registration is now available

Call for presentations of papers and workshops

Session and Abstracts titles

This interconference provides a forum for examining a range of issues concerned with indigenous peoples and their past. WAC is based on, and campaigns for, the need to recognize the historical and social role and the political context of archaeological inquiry and the need to make archaeological studies relevant to the wider community. WAC's First Code of Ethics acknowledges the obligations of professionals in archaeology and heritage management to indigenous peoples. This involves the recognition of the importance of indigenous cultural heritage (sites, places, objects, artifacts, human remains etc) to indigenous people and also, that this heritage rightfully belongs to them as their cultural property.

contact: dkahotea@ihug.co.nz, phillips@orcon.net.nz or jwatkins@telepath.com