Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology
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 "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Despite the widespread acceptance of community based research, less attention has been paid to assessing whether anthropologists and archaeologists are effectively addressing the wants, needs, and goals of American Indian and First Nations peoples. In short, are scholars actually contributing to social justice for indigenous people? In this context, social justice refers to our capacity as scholars to work with American Indian and First Nation entities to accomplish ends that benefit the whole community. Following this definition, presenters in this session will address questions such as, what does an archaeology of social justice mean for distinct American Indian and Indigenous Nations. How can anthropology move in directions that foreground the social justice needs of tribal and Indigenous communities? In answering these questions, this symposium draws together scholars working at the nexus of history, anthropology, and archaeology on critical issues in Native North America including decolonization, gender, environmental racism, settler-colonialism, critical race theory, sovereignty, and the politics of identity and race. We feel such an intersectional commitment to scholarship practiced in North America is not only crucial for the continued evolution of archaeology but for the practice of collaborative research in North America as a whole.
Other Keywords
Indigenous •
Ethnohistory/History •
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management •
Colonialism •
Contract Archaeology •
Cultural Resource Management •
Ethics •
Woodland •
Pueblo •
Historic
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North America (Continent) •
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Accountability as Litmus: The Work of Partnership in Collaborative Archaeology (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Berkeley-Abiquiú Collaborative Archaeology (BACA) Project strives to serve local interests regarding heritage management and narrative control in a community often relegated to lesser authority by the ongoing processes of settler colonialism. Can the partnership be a legitimate part of a decolonizing toolkit as the community...
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Bioarchaeology and Genome Justice: What Are the Implications for Indigenous Peoples? (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the theme of "discovery," used in relation to Indigenous lands and peoples to designate the respective claims of Indigenous peoples and the European peoples that colonized North America. In particular, I look at the domain of "bioarchaeology" and the construct of "genome justice" to explore how DNA science attempts...
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Data Sovereignty in Archaeological and Anthropological Research (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While collaboration has started to become an expected part of research with Native communities, prioritizing the needs and wants of Native communities has yet to be normalized within academic research. In this session, we will discuss how principles of "data sovereignty" might be applied to archaeological and anthropological research...
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The Desire to Know: Pathways to Social Justice in Archaeological Research with Indigenous Peoples (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When working with Native American and Indigenous peoples toward the goal of social justice in archaeology, scholars must remember that "research may not be the intervention that is needed" (Tuck and Yang 2014:236). In exploring this issue with communities, it is crucial to decenter the position of scholars and refocus on the desires of...
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An End to Irate Letters? Social Justice in Tongva Land (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For the past thirty years, Tongva leaders and cultural educators have created educational programs with local scholars in order to rectify the belief that the Tongva are extinct. In some instances, these programs were the result of irate letters from and protests by Tongva community members when exhibits, tours, interpretive signs,...
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Moving beyond Redemptive Archaeology on the California Coast (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The past two decades of archaeology in California have produced several examples of successful indigenous and community-based research. There are still other examples of a lingering tension between archaeologists and tribes as the agendas of western science and indigenous epistemologies grate against one another. This current climate...
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Our Personal and Professional Journeys to a Sacred Unity: Archaeology, Social Justice and the Protection of Apache Sacred Sites (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. ‘TRUST-ship’ in Archaeology—Our definition of a practice that supports meaningful interaction between people and organizations who TRUST one another. Building trust with communities and individuals in society is a basic tool that anthropologists use in conducting research or gathering data for projects. Actions that support the...
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Partnership Building: Moving Beyond the Collaborative Model (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In North America, American Indian communities are engaging with archaeology in two distinct, and sometimes intersecting, ways: one is by working with governmental agencies in complying with local, state and federal laws meant to protect and preserve their cultural heritage, the other involves engaging with their cultural heritage...
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Red Lake Ojibwe Food Sovereignty: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Because American Indians suffer from diet-related diseases at higher rates than other ethnic groups, Indigenous organizers are finding ways to improve the health of their communities. One way they are accomplishing this goal is through the promotion of traditional foods their people consumed prior to European colonization, known as...