Indigenous peoples (Other Keyword)
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Based on a historical ecology approach, this work aims to investigate interactions between indigenous societies and the natural environment expressed in landscape changes through the analyses of their long term occupation of the Middle Xingu River. My goal is to show the specificities of the indigenous settlements in the region considering the multiple aspects of this process in the human settlement of Amazonia. Although not producing great changes in the landscape, small groups of...
Centering Care Within Conversations of Curation: A Heart-Centered Approach to the Tłı̨chǫ Archive and Museum (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes of Care: Exploring Heart-centered Practice in Historical Archaeology", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Traditionally, cultural belongings have been housed in large institutions, often leading to a disconnect between them and their communities. Faced with calls for reconciliation, however, many institutions are at a loss for what to do with these belongings, often prioritizing institutional...
Governmentality and the Subtle Quality of Colonial Violence in an Evolving New England Frontier (2017)
This paper presents a discussion of the often, subtle quality of the legal machinations employed by colonial authorities to dispossess the indigenous groups of New England of their land. Prior to the outbreak of King Philip’s War in 1675, New England’s colonies maintained a civil, but increasingly tense relationship with the indigenous groups of the region. As English population increased tensions grew over land and notions of private property. With the defeat of King Philip’s confederation, the...
Indigenous Blood: A Study of Indigeneity and Family in Northeast Brazil (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2021)
This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This proposal investigates people in northeastern Brazil who claim to have "indigenous blood" ("sangue de índio"), but do not classify themselves as Indigenous people. In the southeast of Piauí state (unlike other regions), no parts of the rural population claim Indigenous status or land rights, yet many people refer to their "indigenous blood." Preliminary data suggest that this refers to...
Pandemic Cycles: Science, Healing, and Indigenous People in Postcolonial Guatemala (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2025)
This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. As they exposed and deepened social inequities, the 1918 Spanish influenza and Covid 19 pandemics also revealed human capacity for social solidarity and the significance of local-level advocacy to meet basic needs and to facilitate more equitable health care access. I intend to use Indigenous healing knowledge and public health practices as lenses through which to demonstrate that Indigenous peoples...
Pragmatism at the Intersection of Indigeneity, Cultural Property, and Intangible Heritage (2016)
When descendant groups are denied direct and meaningful engagement in decision making, heritage management policies are ineffective at best and harmful at worst. Access to and control over one’s own heritage is a basic human right essential to identity, wellbeing and worldview. The historic separation of Indigenous peoples from their heritage not only results in considerable economic and cultural harms, but is a form of violence. Community-based heritage initiatives are capable of challenging...