Indigenous heritage (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Strawbery Banke Museum is a 10-acre outdoor history museum that explores change over time in a waterfront neighborhood. The museum has recently officially expanded its period of interpretation to begin with early Indigenous history and continue through the present day. This expanded focus offers visitors various opportunities to...
Nunalleq past and present – discovering a Yup’ik archaeological heritage (2015)
The Yup’ik, the Indigenous people of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, have since the 19th century been in the centre of ethnographic research in the Arctic. Yup’ik customs and material culture have been collected and investigated with the pretext of preserving a ‘vanishing’ traditional lifeway. Today Yup’ik culture is vibrant with a strong connection to traditional subsistence strategies and ways of life. However, Yup’ik history is very much the history of the ‘Other’, retold and written from a...
Persistent Places in Indigenous North America (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Indigenous histories are rooted in movement—movement between places, movement across sacred sites, and movement to ecological niches. Drawing on comparative archaeological evidence of the long-term use of landscapes in both the American Southwest and Northeast, this paper explores the concept of placed-based histories. The factors...