Archaeologists have created a thought world which serves to support their own power and privilege, harms the interests of American Indian people, and aids the on-going cultural genocide focused on Native Americans. However, this thought world is a form of hyperreality. Its images and ideas interact with and perpetuate one another with no reference to reality or meaning. We archaeologists must reject the hyperreality, come to terms with the unethical aspects of our discipline's past and our current actions, enter into meaningful interactions with American Indian people, and cede most of our power and privilege to Indian people in order to develop a truly useful set of archaeological ethics in a real moral world.
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