John Anfinson is a Mississippi River Historian and retired Superintendent of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. His federal career spans over forty years starting as an intern with the US Army Corps of Engineers, eventually becoming the head of cultural resource management. For over 25 years Anfinson has been researching and writing about the Mississippi River and is the author of The River We Have Wrought: The History of the Upper Mississippi as well as River History: A Historic Resources Study of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. He is one of the founding board members of the Friends of the Mississippi River and continues to sit on its board as well as the Minnesota and National Mississippi River Parkway Commissions and the National Parks Conservation Association’s Midwest Council.
Selena Bernier is a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. She is currently an archeologist with the Science Museum of Minnesota as well as a PhD candidate in the department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota where she studies North American archaeology from an Indigenous perspective. Bernier examines the ways in which Indigenous perspectives are missing or misrepresented in North American archaeology, specifically in the Old Copper Culture of the Great Lakes. By examining Indigenous Traditional Knowledges of copper, environment, and geology in the Lake Superior region, Bernier aims to provide a richer and more culturally specific story of Indigenous presence and the deeper meaning of copper.
David Mather is a Minnesota archaeologist and has been the National Register Archaeologist at the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) since 2006. Before joining the SHPO, he was the consulting archaeologist for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Tribal Historical Preservation Office. Throughout his career, Mather has worked in zooarchaeology, public archaeology, and has specialized in environmental archaeology. Since 2016, Mather has been the course instructor for Applied Heritage Management at the University of Minnesota.
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