COLLABORATION IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRACTICE: CASE STUDIES FROM NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ALASKA.

Archaeology is increasingly focused on collaborative research, co-stewardship, community-led scholarship, and the co-production of traditional knowledge and scientific methods. Across the National Park Service in Alaska, there are good examples of collaborative on-the-ground projects occurring within the boundaries of national park lands. Additionally, NPS is focused on improving and expanding the ways in which we work alongside partner communities off park lands, providing support for community historic preservation and cultural heritage preservation efforts. The authors share a few key illustrations of these efforts to provide potential practical frameworks for archaeologists who are looking toward a collaborative and holistic discipline. These advances in the practice of archaeology show that it is possible for our discipline to "Yaghelich' q'u t' inluq'" [intending to do "good work" in Dena'ina]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]