Decolonizing Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "What Is "Historical"?", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The separation of the past into “pre-historic” and “historic” has often been criticized for creating an artificial division that prioritizes Eurocentric written histories over Indigenous oral histories. However, this bias towards Eurocentric histories persists even when Indigenous written histories are available. In Hawaiʻi, texts that are written in...
Finding a Grand Ronde Way: Building Epistemological Bridges through Collaborative Field Practice (2018)
In the language of self-determination, an indigenous archaeology is an expression of the sovereignty of a tribal nation to determine how its heritage will be cared for, now and into the future. Tribes, however, encounter several capacity-related challenges in developing tribally-specific heritage management plans. These challenges include the lack of funding for tribal historic preservation and repatriation, shortage of qualified staff, and, most significantly, operating within a heritage...