For the past 18 years, the IAIS Research Department has hosted an Annual Native American-Archaeology Roundtable, in which speakers from across the country present on a chosen topic relating to Archaeology and Indigeneity.
2023-2024: Archaeology of Food, Food Sovereignty, and Ecology
2021: Native American Communities and Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future
2020: Martians, Atlantians, and Lost Tribes: Pseudoarchaeology and its impact on Native American Studies
2019: Recent Discoveries in Connecticut Archaeology: New Light on Old HIstories
2018: The Benefits of Multiple Perspectives for Interpreting Our Local Histories: Decolonizing New England Archaeology and Museum Studies (Forthcoming book in 2025)
2017: Our Hidden Landscapes: Native American Stone Ceremonial Sites in the North American East
This roundtable was adapted into a book by Lucianne Lavin and Elaine Thomas
2016: Early Encounters: Dutch Indigenous Relations in 17th Century Northeastern North America
This roundtable was adapted into a book by Lucianne Lavin
2015: After the Glacier: The First Peopling of the Northeast
2014: Stone Cultural Feature and Ceremonial Landscapes
2013: Reservation Archaeology
2012: Commerce Native American Style: Trade, Gift, Exchange and the Spiritual
2011: Baubles, Bangles, and Bright Shiny Beads: Wampum in Native American