A growing body of work illustrates that community-based archaeology can contribute in valuable and meaningful ways to communities, including helping individuals and groups to heal from historical trauma. Yet the current political climate makes it challenging, even dangerous at times, to engage in such work. In what is being called the ‘post-truth’ era, there is concern that science is under attack, and I argue that the threat is heightened for Indigenous science. For Indigenous communities and archaeologists, efforts to work in partnership to bring Indigenous perspectives into public view can make one a target for bullying, aggression, and hostility. This can be damaging and have serious negative repercussions including producing further trauma for communities and individuals. Drawing on Indigenous epistemologies, I propose a model of ‘braiding knowledge’ to create space for multiple ways of knowing that complement each other, arguing that such symbiosis is necessary for our contemporary forms of knowledge production, particularly in the current political climate. I provide the example of Archibald’s approach to ‘Indigenous storywork’ as one method for archaeologists to explore, presenting examples drawn from research and teaching contexts to demonstrate the potential of arts-based research methods, such as graphic narratives, augmented reality, and animation. I propose these methods of storywork as worthy of further exploration by archaeologists in the current divisive political climate and as we face a world in crisis as one way of increasing science literacy. I argue that they have the capacity to ‘mobilize knowledge’, allowing archaeologists to reach diverse groups, creating space for knowledge exchange and connecting across differences.

越来越多的工作表明，以社区为基础的考古学可以以有价值和有意义的方式为社区做出贡献，包括帮助个人和团体从历史创伤中痊愈。然而，当前的政治气候使得从事此类工作具有挑战性，有时甚至是危险的。在所谓的“后真相”时代，人们担心科学受到攻击，我认为对土著科学的威胁正在加剧。对于土著社区和考古学家来说，合作努力将土著观点带入公众视野可能会使他们成为欺凌、侵略和敌意的目标。这可能具有破坏性并产生严重的负面影响，包括对社区和个人造成进一步的创伤。借鉴土著认识论，我提出了一个“编织知识”模型，为相互补充的多种了解方式创造空间，认为这种共生对于我们当代的知识生产形式是必要的，尤其是在当前的政治气候下。我提供了 Archibald 的“土著故事工作”方法的例子，作为考古学家探索的一种方法，展示了从研究和教学环境中提取的例子，以展示基于艺术的研究方法的潜力，例如图形叙事、增强现实和动画。我建议这些故事工作方法值得考古学家在当前分裂的政治气候中进行进一步探索，因为我们面临着一个危机世界，这是提高科学素养的一种方式。我认为他们有能力“调动知识”，