Reservation Archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara L Gonzalez.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Kiesow.

Grand Portage National Monument (GRPO) is located within the Grand Portage Reservation in Northern Minnesota and is primarily concerned with interpreting the events and impacts of the fur trade in the eighteenth century. In an effort to increase Grand Portage Ojibwe representation and in compliance of Section 110, GRPO conducted archaeological excavations in the summer of 2016 of the historic yard of a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) building to explore land use and plant use throughout time and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kacy Hollenback. Wendi Field Murray. Jay Sturdevant.

The Reservation Era (AD 1778 to present) is a time of culture change and fight for cultural sovereignty. There are approximately 326 American Indian Reservations covering 56.2 million acres in the United States, numbers that fail to capture the realities of non-federally recognized groups, those with no land base, or indigenous peoples in Canada or Mexico. All of these communities experienced profound transformations in economies, cultural institutions, and socio-political structures during the...