community-based archaeologies (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Kretzler.

Archival material plays an important role in historical archaeological research. This is particularly true in studies of Native American communities of the recent past since the colonial archive comprises a sizable portion of available historical sources. Yet the archive must not be treated as a storehouse of information alone, as it constitutes both state perceptions of Native lifeways and modes of knowledge production through which colonial projects were realized. When approached as sites of...