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Evolving Native American Participation in the Excavation and Interpretation of a Tutelo Site in Ithaca, New York (2018)
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In the 1990s, Cornell University students partnered with community members when service-learning courses were a fairly new concept for archaeological education. Native students participated in the excavation to locate a neutral Tutelo village that was destroyed in 1779 in a punitive military expedition by American forces. The Cornell team also worked in partnership with local farmers, property owners, developers, and town officials in Ithaca, New York. The site was open to the public and tours...