Originally from northern Wisconsin, Anastasia Walhovd is an enrolled member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Anastasia’s work as a Preservation Archaeologist includes documenting and assessing Archaeological Resource Protection Act violations on Tribal lands and educating the public about cultural resource crime. She joined Archaeology Southwest in 2024.
Anastasia has worked in cultural resource management as an archaeologist and Tribal Monitor since 2018 in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas, and New Mexico. In 2020, Anastasia founded the Tribal Archaeology Network, an email listserv and online community space for Indigenous archaeologists and archaeologists serving Indigenous communities. Anastasia completed her master’s degree at New Mexico State University in 2024, completing her thesis research as part of the Geté Anishinaabe Izhichigéwin Community Archaeology Project, documenting Red Cliff Ojibwe workers employed by an early 20th-century historic hotel on the Red Cliff reservation.