“Utilizing the Gift” explores the potential of oral histories and Indigenous self-narratives to create different histories in archaeological narratives. Using zooarchaeology, oral history interviews, and archival ethnographic texts, Bear Bones Lab colleague Melanie Cootsona and her co-author describe a gifting model of human-animal relationships, as demonstrated by turkeys at the New Mexican Pueblo of Picuris. See it in the Journal of Social Archaeology.