From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico

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.