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I am an archeologist. It’s a field that I was initially drawn to because it felt comfortably distant from the things that got people upset. I couldn’t have been more wrong. In recent years, we archeologists have found ourselves drawn into deeply acrimonious debates about Canada’s history with Indigenous Peoples. It makes sense. Our profession puts us into a physical encounter with the past. We collect evidence. Recent articles in some corners of the media…