The promises of institutional partnerships with and in Indigenous communities

The Tihosuco Heritage Preservation and Community Development Project, a collaborative effort originally focused on archaeological research and local museum development, highlights a Maya view of history and the past by engaging, as much as possible, in a horizontal partnership between researchers from Global North universities and institutions in Tihosuco, an Indigenous town in Quintana Roo, Mexico. The role of interdisciplinarity, the promises and reimaginations in partnership-building, and the ongoing difficulties and occasional missteps that can and do arise when constructing partnerships between Global North research institutions and minoritized Indigenous communities are some of the central tenets in this panel.