From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

For the past five years the Pueblo of Pojoaque and University of Colorado Boulder have been working together to investigate ancestral Tewa sites of the Pojoaque area. We feel the concept of partnership characterizes our work better than the related concepts of indigenous or collaborative archaeology because: 1) in our approach both archaeological data and traditional knowledge count as evidence, and each has the opportunity to influence interpretations of the other; 2) participation is open-ended, such that many people have contributed ideas and knowledge to the work; 3) there is no one thing to investigate because archaeologists and native communities have distinct but mutually-legitimate interests related to ancestral sites; and 4) archaeologists and community members both make important contributions in pursuing both sets of interests. The papers in this symposium reflect these ideals and report on our progress in piecing together the Tewa history of the Pojoaque area and in supporting the contemporary Pueblo through expanding awareness of its ancestral places.

Other Keywords
Pueblo • Ancestral Pueblo • Cultural Heritage and Preservation • Ethnohistory/History • Survey • Colonialism • Landscape Archaeology • Geoarchaeology • Zooarchaeology • Cultural Resource Management

Geographic Keywords
New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Colorado (State / Territory) • Utah (State / Territory) • Nevada (State / Territory)

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  • Agriculture and Landscape Change in the Tesuque Valley (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Damick. Arlene Rosen.

    This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The relationships of people with their land over time leaves visible and invisible traces. As archaeologists we are confronted with landscapes that are the resulting accumulation of these traces over time, such that they may no longer resemble the place that people of the past interacted with. Place is not just a geographic...

  • Background and Motivations: The Anthropology of K'uuyemugeh (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce Bernstein.

    This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The K’uuyemugeh Project is designed to develop new methodologies, providing opportunities for Pojoaque community members to oversee, participate and interpret ancestral sites and their continuing relevance in telling ancestral and more recent histories. As a cultural anthropologist the work is also designed to bring the...

  • Bringing Together Accounts of the Pueblo of Pojoaque (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel Villarreal Catanach.

    This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Until recently, widely accessible published works concerning the Pueblo of Pojoaque, its people, culture, and history, have come by way of mostly non-Native academics and other researchers. While highly valuable for understanding this Tewa community’s past, they often carry the inherent biases of their authors or leave out the...

  • Cuyamungue and Partnership (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Ortman.

    This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The papers in this session illustrate the many benefits that follow from archaeologists and community members working together in partnership. In this paper, I explain why the concept of partnership better-captures the approach we are taking than the related concepts of indigenous and collaborative archaeology. I also describe...

  • Fields, Shrines, and Paths—Ancestral Tewa Landscape Usage at Cuyamunge (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Cooper.

    This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past five years, collaborative work between the Pueblo of Pojoaque and the University of Colorado, Boulder at the ancestral Tewa site of Cuyamunge has revealed a network of agricultural fields, shrines, and paths. Studies suggest that shrines have been used as a centerpiece of Puebloan ritual observances for at least...

  • Horses and Hares: What Analysis of Museum Collectrions Can Tell Us About Life in the Protohistoric American Southwest (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay Johansson.

    This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Like many museum collections, the fauna recovered from LA38 was not systematically collected, yet it can still provide interesting and important information regarding life, diet, and practices of the individuals who occupied the area in the past. This paper focuses on both the expected and unexpected results of faunal analysis of...

  • Incorporations into Tewa Language and Culture (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David Shaul. Scott Ortman.

    This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Linguistic acculturation during the Columbian exchange traditionally focused on loan words from European languages into Native American languages, privileging European culture. Southwestern studies in particular have presented lists of Spanish words in native garb, with little discussion other than possible borrowing strata,...

  • Leadership (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriel Montoya.

    This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Breif discussion on Pojoaque's place in the Tewa World

  • New Information from Old Collections: The Wendorf and Ellis Collections from Cuyamungue and Pojoaque Pueblos (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlyn E. Davis.

    This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past five years, the University of Colorado, along with the Pueblo of Pojoaque and the Colorado Archaeological Society, have been analyzing the ceramics collected by Fred Wendorf at Cuyamugue Pueblo (LA38) and Florence Hawley Ellis at Pojoaque Pueblo (LA61) in the 1950s. Just through visual macroscopic analyses and...

  • Presenting Pojoaque History through Exhibits (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynda Romero.

    This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As someone who was born and raised in my own Pueblo, it amazed me how much I don’t know of the history of the Pueblo of Pojoaque. I’ve heard bits and pieces, different versions of stories from different people, and I’ve read about our history but none made an impact until I was part of a discussion at the University of Colorado,...

  • Protecting Ancestral Pojoaque Places (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Fermin Lopez. Bruce Bernstein.

    This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Protecting Pueblo of Pojoaque ancestral sites is a challenge. Inside our exterior boundaries are non-native encroachments. Cultural properties are often located within these checker board properties and more often than not have significant cultural meaning to the Pueblo’s culture and history. Tangible and intangible cultural...

  • Survey of a Coalition site at Pojoaque Pueblo (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Cruz.

    This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The area surrounding the current village of Pojoaque Pueblo has been inhabited in a series of population surges and wanings since at least the Developmental period. During this history the immediate area has been occupied by at least 4 Pueblo villages (including the modern village of Pojoaque Pueblo) all in close proximity to...

  • The Value of Anthropological Research for the Pueblo of Pojoaque (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Talachy.

    This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Like many of my community, I grew up here, learning about the landscape by living within it and walking over it. Evidences of our long history are found everywhere and I always wanted to know more. Our older members taught us about our land too. But it was difficult to recognize Pojoaque when I read archaeology; I also noticed...