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DOCUMENT Citation Only Wade Campbell.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Property Regimes" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-1900s, American anthropologists characterized Diné society as a four-tiered social organizational structure with “natural communities” at the highest level. Often referred to as regional “bands,” these geographically defined, economically self-sufficient, multifamily social entities were loosely organized under the nominal leadership of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liv Winnicki.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Kin Ya'a (towering house) is a prominent Chacoan great house that was the center of large community in the 11th and 12th centuries. This area has been utilized by the Navajo (Diné) over the course of two or more centuries. Nevertheless, there has been a shortage of research done on the Diné occupation of this particular region. According to oral histories...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Wilcox.

This is an abstract from the "Nat’aah Nahane’ Bina’ji O’hoo’ah: Diné Archaeologists & Navajo Archaeology in the 21st Century" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Gobernador Polychrome is a Navajo ceramic practice whose development was hastened by participation in the Pueblo Revolt. It represents a visible change in Navajo ceramic technology and a window into their social history. My discussions, in this paper are not aligned with Navajo...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kerry Thompson.

The role of archaeology in facilitating everyday life on the Navajo Nation is a day-to-day concern for many Navajo Nation citizens. Citizens and communities of the Navajo Nation and the nation itself engage with archaeology in three ways. Individual citizens require archaeology to secure the necessary permission to build a home on reservation land. For Navajo communities, archaeology is part and parcel with infrastructure and land use planning and development. At the government level archaeology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kerry Thompson.

This is an abstract from the "Nat’aah Nahane’ Bina’ji O’hoo’ah: Diné Archaeologists & Navajo Archaeology in the 21st Century" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Anyone who has studied southwestern archaeology is familiar with the paradigm that dictates how Navajos are understood in the trajectory of indigenous life written by anthropologists and archaeologists in the academic study of the southwest. The paradigm is this: descendants of migratory...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Turney.

     There is a contentious history between Navajo families living in the Wupatki Basin, ranchers, and the National Park Service. The creation of the monument in 1924 gradually displaced indigenous residents from ancestral homelands, leading to loss of territory and connection to family. Here I focus on change in Euroamerican demands for land and federal management policies, as well as Navajo kinship, family dynamics, and oral history as told by descendants of the first Navajo settlers in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Christie.

My paper will discuss how the Navajo construct Canyon de Chelly as a quintessential place on the reservation. The canyon has been occupied at least since Basketmaker times in the first centuries A.D.. Archaeological investigations have identified Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings from roughly 700 to 1300A.D. followed by a brief Hopi presence. Navajo people began to settle Canyon de Chelly in the late 1700s. Unlike the Ancestral Pueblos, the Navajo lived on the canyon bottom and reused some of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Turney.

The history between the Wupatki Basin Navajo, the National Park Service, and various local ranchers has resulted in the Navajo being driven from this part of their ancestral homelands. The results led to loss of land and connection to family members, some of whom were driven across the Little Colorado River and formed new settlements. My research this summer has been to chart the genealogy of the Wupatki Navajo and extended family, visit Navajo sites within the Flagstaff National Monuments and...

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This report provides a history on the use of Native American languages in U.S. military services.

DOCUMENT Full-Text The New Mexico Department of Military Affairs.

This report provides a history on the use of Native American languages in U.S. military services.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johna Hutira.

A re-occurring theme in current Cultural Resource Management activities involve the term "Public Benefit". A majority of the discussions using that term refer to archaeological contributions to our understanding of a shared cultural patrimony. A lesser known aspect of Public Benefit is the direct monetary gain a community sees as a result of CRM work. On a general level, archaeological projects contribute via payroll and sales taxes. On a local level, area businesses benefit from spending by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maxwell M Forton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Chaco Canyon has long been a home for Navajo (Diné) peoples. Despite the prevalence of Navajo sites throughout the canyon and importance of this cultural landscape to contemporary Navajo communities, their history is often underappreciated in Chaco archaeology. This is especially true for the abundant Navajo rock art incised and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Davina R Two Bears.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boarding And Residential Schools: Healing, Survivance And Indigenous Persistence", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As a Diné (Navajo) archaeologist I aim to decolonize the field of archaeology by researching my tribe’s history for the benefit of the Navajo people and others. The Old Leupp Boarding School was a federal Indian boarding school in operation on the southwest Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona,...