As first voiced by activists in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s and then sustained by other Native American leaders throughout the rest of the twentieth century, many Native American communities object to archaeological excavations and the wanton destruction of their traditional cultural places. In this article, the author discusses her views on archaeology in relation to Native American communities. In her research, she describes her interactions between members of Wana Pa Koot Koot and Payos Kuus C'uukwe. She discusses four essential cognitive psychology concepts, whom she considers as hindrances to the building of successful relationships, and these are: (1) naive realism; (2) the fixed pie myth; (3) loss aversion; and (4) status quo bias. (Contains 58 notes.)