Indigenous Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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The 2014 Tsilhqot’in Decision in the Supreme Court of Canada reaffirms the relevance of archaeological research in the adjudication of Indigenous land and title claims. The evidentiary standards adopted by the Court, that occupation must be sufficient, continuous, and exclusive, invite comparisons with previous archaeological contributions to land claim settlements, refresh inquiry into current applications of archaeological data and perspectives to argue for (and against) affinities between...
Archaeology and cultural preservation: a perspective from a Yup’ik village (2015)
Qanirtuuq Incorporated and the village of Quinhagak have supported archaeology in our community since 2009. Thousands of our cultural artifacts have been saved from an eroding archaeological site, and are now being studied and preserved. Working with archaeologists from the University of Aberdeen is helping our people by protecting of our cultural heritage and also in helping to reconnect young people, elders and culture-bearers. In this presentation, I will speak about my community’s...
An Archaeology of Survivance: Investigating Settler Colonial Narratives with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (2018)
Native nations in the 19th and early 20th century were subjected to increasing pressure from American settlers and the U.S. government, which resulted in their forced removal, resettlement, and the creation of policies that were directed at terminating tribal identities and reservations. Despite this history of colonial oppression and dispossession tribes such as the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (CTGR) did not just survive settler colonialism, but created anew their social worlds and sense of...
Beyond Paleoarchaic Lithic Procurement at the Bear Creek Site (2023)
This is an abstract from the "The Second-Oldest Sites in the Pacific Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. More than 3,600 chipped stone artifacts were recovered from the Bear Creek site in Redmond, Washington, primarily from a context dating to ca. 12,500–10,000 cal BP. Projectile point styles include unfluted lanceolate and Western Stemmed Tradition points. The site was excavated as part of a cultural resources management project in 2009 and...
A Case Study of Engaged Archaeology within Graduate Education (2017)
This poster presents a collaborative archaeological project between the Pueblo of Acoma Historic Preservation Office (HPO) and the University of Arizona, School of Anthropology. The project began as an internship that fulfilled a requirement of the Applied Archaeology MA program. The internship was designed to better understand the Tribal Historic Preservation Program in residence at the Pueblo of Acoma, while providing professional archaeological assistance to the HPO by compiling a database of...
Categorizations of Identity in Settler Colonial Contexts: Unpacking Métis as Mixed in the Archaeological Record (2018)
The Métis Nation of Canada has often been categorized as a mixed, hybrid ethnic group, based largely on racialized understandings of the early encounters between Indigenous women and European men. Métis scholars have begun to critique the racial basis for "Métis-as-mixed" and shift toward ways of identifying based on personhood and nationhood. In this paper, I discuss how settler colonial categories of hybridity have influenced past archaeological research on the Métis in Canada and explore the...
Close to Home: bringing heritage management graduate programs to descendant communities (2015)
Hawaiʻi’s state regulations require principal investigators in the 26 active archaeological consulting firms to possess "a graduate degree from an accredited institution in archaeology, or anthropology, with a specialization in archaeology, or an equivalent field." Because there have been few opportunities for appropriate local graduate training, many heritage management specialists are hired from regions outside of Hawaiʻi and begin with little background or connection to descendant...
Collaboration and Indigenous Archaeology at Maluaka on the Big Island of Hawai’i (2016)
A collaborative archaeological project on the Big Island of Hawaii involves excavation and intensive water flotation to recover plant remains at Maluaka, a ten acre parcel of the North Kona agricultural field system above Keauhou traditionally known as the Kuahewa. The work is conducted in collaboration with Kamehameha Schools, a private charitable educational trust endowed by the will of Hawaiian Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop (1831-1884). The project involves linkages with elementary,...
Collaborative curation of Kuikuro collections: the AIKAX Portal (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper describes the development and implementation of the AIKAX Portal, a digital database that consolidates the data of more than three decades of ethnographic and archaeological research and collections among the Kuikuro indigenous people of the Upper Xingu. The Xingu Indigenous Territory (TIX) encompasses 20,000 km2 in the southern portion of...
Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology in Turkey: The Sardis Case (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the early 1900s, the archaeological site of Sardis has attracted Classical archaeologists. However, archaeologists’ interaction with the local population has always been limited to labor and domestic service exchange. Such a relationship reflects colonial origins of archaeology in the Middle East and doesn’t address the knowledge-based needs of the...
Colonial Households and Homes: Changes in Kalaallit Architecture, 1750–1900 (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From the initial colonization of Kalaallit Nunaat, houses and housing have been a contested subject. The Danish Trade wanted Kalaallit Inuit to live traditionally as before missionization, spread out and following the animals, thus increasing the economic return. However, the Mission wanted Kalaallit Inuit close to the colonies because it would ease...
Community Based Participatory Research in Hawaiian Historical Archaeology (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Community-based participatory research necessitates community members to be equal participants in every stage of the archaeological research process. Archaeology in Hawai‘i frequently involves community participation, but projects in which community members are engaged as equal partners throughout each stage of the process remain...
Continuidad y cambio: un estudio comparativo e interpretativo de los espacios domésticos de Mawchu Llacta (2017)
Una de las más grandes reformas llevadas a cabo durante el Virreinato en el Perú fue la Reducción General de Indios, que consistió en el traslado y reubicación de las poblaciones indígenas. Este proceso de cambios no solo se enfocó en la generación de una nueva forma de asentamientos humanos, sino que también afectaron con toda una estructura social, que a su vez repercutió en el modo de vida y bagaje cultural materializado en la distribución, uso y representación de espacios, es este el caso de...
Decolonizing Archaeological Methodologies: The Making and Remaking of Research Practices with Tribal Communities (2017)
Archaeological research has traditionally been a top down scientific process of knowledge production with little involvement from the descendant communities whose cultural resources and heritage are under investigation. With the incorporation of feminist, postprocessual, postcolonial, and Indigenous theories in archaeology, the discipline has become more accessible and accountable to publics and communities outside of the specialists who conduct archaeological research. In this presentation, I...
Deep Impacts of Mohegan Archaeology: Indigenous Knowledge and its Influence on the Past (2017)
There is no doubt that indigenous, collaborative, and community-based projects have made great strides in reshaping the ways in which archaeological research is conducted and carried out in North America. Comparatively speaking, however, reporting on collaborative projects often place less emphasis on the ways in which indigenous and hybridized versions of archaeology influence our interpretations of the past and penetrate archaeology at the level of theory. In this paper we attempt to fill this...
Differential Access for the Ethical Stewardship of Cultural and Digital Heritage through Mukurtu.net (2016)
This is a pdf copy of the PPT slides used for this presentation in the SAA symposium. In July, 2015, the number of federally recognized tribes increased to 567 with the inclusion of the Pamunkey tribe in Virginia. Among other benefits, Tribal Nations have the right to self govern, and as such, the right to determine how best to curate and manage their own heritage and histories. To put this number into perspective, there are currently only 193 member states (countries) in the United Nations,...
Doing Archaeology in a Good Way: Reflections with and from Grand Ronde (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Congress: Multivocal Conversations Furthering the World Archaeological Congress Agenda" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2014, Field Methods in Indigenous Archaeology has worked in partnership with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon’s Historic Preservation Office to create a Grand Ronde way for doing archaeology. This approach is grounded in the values and protocols of the...
E Ola Mau ka ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi: Pushing for more ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi-centered research in Hawaiian archaeology (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "What Is "Historical"?", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The separation of the past into “pre-historic” and “historic” has often been criticized for creating an artificial division that prioritizes Eurocentric written histories over Indigenous oral histories. However, this bias towards Eurocentric histories persists even when Indigenous written histories are available. In Hawaiʻi, texts that are written in...
Emerging Materialities and Landscapes of Early Colonial Encounters at LaSoye, Dominica (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Encounters on the Caribbean Frontier: Archaeology at LaSoye, Dominica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Contemporary archaeological research of Indigenous-European interactions in the colonial Caribbean explores themes of Indigenous resilience and agency in the face of encroaching European conquest. This paper presents an overview of ongoing archaeological work at LaSoye, a colonial era European...
Empirical Imperialism and the Development of Indigenous Archaeologies (2015)
One way of situating the empirical research that often accompanied European colonialism is to view it as an instrument of imperialism. This legacy stands a major impediment to the kind of collaboration that is an essential part of the growth of indigenous archaeologies. Yet empirical research remains an important part of archaeology. Used in a collaborative framework it can provide powerful evidence that can augment and refine indigenous histories, especially those being disputed by...
Engaged Research, Management and Planning at Tolay Lake Regional Park (2015)
Archaeology has a long history of extracting knowledge and physical resources from Indigenous communities without redistributing resources or benefits to these communities. The ideas of giving back or "paying in our own currency" are well-meant, albeit simple, attempts to atone for our discipline’s history. However, the historical traumas in Indigenous communities from political, economic and scholarly colonialism are complex, and cannot be remedied with simple fixes. Research that seeks to...
Exploring the Indigenous Experience of Saipan in World War II (2018)
During World War II in the Pacific, the Battle of Saipan became one of the pivotal successes of the United States military to turn the tide of war. Unfortunately, this success came at a cost to the residents of the island, and while the Japanese civilian experience has been largely studied, the indigenous experience has been bypassed. By exploring the development of the construction on the island and civilian holding camps by U.S. military and Saipan civilians, the impact sustained from the...
Field Methods in Indigenous Archaeology: Building Capacity through Community-Based Research and Education (2016)
There are few formal field schools in the United States where students can receive formal training in tribal historic preservation, community-based collaboration, and archaeological field methods. Given the increasing role of consultation and collaboration in disciplinary practice, learning to effectively communicate and build relationships with a Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) and/or tribal community is a critical skill. The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon’s...
Finding Suckerville: Relocating Dene Sųłiné Sites in a Landscape of Erasure (2023)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2022, Cold Lake First Nations (CLFN) initiated a project to relocate historic sites within the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range (CLAWR) around Primrose Lake, Alberta/Saskatchewan, Canada, an area of great cultural significance to the community and hub within their traditional homelands. The 1952 creation of the military weapons range resulted in the removal of hundreds of Indigenous people...
From McLoughlin and Mills to Ikanum and Inclusion: Broadening the Understanding of tumwata (Oregon City) History through Indigenous Historiography (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Emergent Indigenous place theories are developing effective “gaps analyses” of archaeological and historical datasets caused by the social contexts in which existing dominant culture narratives have been written, interpreted, and projected. Archaeological and historical methodologies for researching and re-centering the stories of historically excluded...