Their involvement was not adequately recognized in all of the academic publications that resulted from the project, a limitation that reflects the broader failure of academic archaeology at the time to adequately credit Indigenous intellectual contributions to research.

The gradual development of more equitable frameworks for recognizing and compensating Indigenous knowledge contributions to research has been part of the broader transformation of archaeological ethics over the decades since Ozette.

The project was ahead of its time in its basic structure of tribal ownership and community control, but it was not fully ahead of its time in every dimension of the relationship between the research team and the community.

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