Being and becoming a South American archaeologist / Miguel Aguilar Diaz -- The challenges of a Ghanaian archaeologist / Clement Abas Apaak -- Understanding archaeology from a Samoan perspective / Tautala Silauleleioamoa Asaua -- Raise your head and be proud Ojibwekwe / Sonya L. Atalay -- Searching for identity through archaeology / Kevin Brownlee -- Indigenous journeys - Splinterville, Drenthe, Amherst / Margaret M. Bruchac -- Being a Yorta Yorta heritage man : an interview by Claire Smith / Alan Burns -- The experience of a Mayan student / Iyaxel Ixkan Anastasia Cojtí Ren -- My life as a Kaqchikel Mayan tour leader and Maya researcher in Guatemala / Antonio Cuxil -- Who am I and how did I get here? / Brandy E. George -- Indigenous archaeology and being Indian in New England / D. Rae Gould -- Written voices become history / Sven Haakanson, Jr. -- Archaeology in my soul / Robert L. Hall -- The flying alien - an outsider archaeologist / Augustin F.C. Holl -- Archaeological reflections of a 68-year-old bushman / Ken Isaacson -- Take only what your need, and leave the rest / Kathy Kawelu -- Archaeology and perceptions of the past in Papua New Guinea / Vincent Kewibu -- Being an African archaeologist in the United States / Chapurukha Kusimba -- The journey of a L'nu archaeologist in a Mi'kmaw place / Roger Lewis -- Echoes from the bones : maintaining a voice to speak for the ancestors / Dorothy Lippert -- "An encounter" : a personal account of being-becoming an indigenous archaeologist in South Africa / Irene Adziambei Mafune -- The "other" accidental archaeologist / Nola M. Markey -- (Re)searching for ancestors through archaeology / Desireé Reneé Martinez -- Archaeological battles and triumphs : a personal reflection / Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu -- Working for my own / Gerard O'Regan -- Living archaeology for the Ainu in Hokkaido : an interview by Hirofumi Kato / Akemi and Rika Oshino -- Being an Inuvialuk archaeologist and educator from Tuktoyaktuk / Myrna Pokaik -- Nach'en or transforming into a Squamish Nation indigenous archaeologist / Rudy Reimer/Yumḵs / Haere Tika Tonu Atu - keep going forward / Makere (Margaret) Rika-Heke -- Indigenous archaeology in Mexico : recognizing distinctive histories / Nelly M. Robles García -- Munk-łxwáp íli ̉i khapa nayka anqati shawash tillixam ikta - digging for my ancestors' things / Eirik Thorsgard -- What better way to give back to your people / Davina Two Bears -- Being an indigenous African archaeologist / Aribidesi Usman -- Becoming one of "them"... / Joe Watkins -- Becoming a Ngarrindjeri archaeologist : the journey to and from suburbia / Christopher J. Wilson -- My eclectic career in archaeology / Eldon Yellowhorn