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The Conscious Midden: An Indigenous Ontological Approach to Mound Building, Environmental Sustainability, and Other-Than-Human Selfhood in the Pacific Northwest Coast Salish Sea (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Salish Sea is a region speckled with coastal shell mounds. Often these places are the remnants of winter villages occupied over generations. Mounds were built with intention and foresight to leach nutrients into the surrounding ecosystem, sustaining the environment for generations. Millennia ago, Indigenous peoples understood through transgenerational...