Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Chavez. Teresa Rodrigues.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Perceptions of the past are culturally bound, which can inhibit research objectives and our interpretations. Taking a reflective approach in archaeology encourages researchers to consider the social and political ramifications of their work and how it may affect the communities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Guebard. Larry Benallie.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The National Park Service (NPS) is increasingly focused on strengthening relationships with tribal governments through policies designed to promote the co-stewardship of natural and cultural resources located on Native American ancestral homelands. Recent Secretarial Orders and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurene Montero. Nicole Armstrong-Best. Lindsey Vogel-Teeter.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. S’edav Va’aki (formerly known as Pueblo Grande) is an ancestral O’Odham (Hohokam) archaeological village site and the only National Historic Landmark in Phoenix, Arizona. For more than a decade, the S’edav Va’aki Museum (Museum) has consulted monthly with the Salt River...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Bess.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) or Indigenous Knowledge (IK)—evolved and evolving from hundreds or thousands of years of observation and interaction with specific environments—has answered questions posed by geomorphologists and archaeologists, among others, attempting to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karl Hoerig. Anabel Galindo. Thomas Sheridan.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Non-indigenous anthropology and historiography of the Yaqui people has concentrated on two foci: sixteenth-century resistance to Spanish conquest followed by supposed wholehearted acceptance of Jesuit Catholicism in southern Sonora, and late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Garraty. J. Andrew Darling. Craig Fertelmes. Barnaby Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists who study the relationship of memory to material culture or landscapes examine the ways in which history and cultural practice contribute to tradition-building and its perpetuation. Cultural practices are the daily embodiment of one’s traditions, beliefs, or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The passage of NAGPRA in 1990 has had a tremendous impact on archaeological investigations, museum curation practices, and active relationships with Native American communities, notably those federally recognized. Although many archaeologists fretted that NAGPRA would significantly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Deborah Huntley. Michele Koons. Octavius Seowtewa. Ronnie Cachini. Stephen Nash.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mogollon Highlands of west-central New Mexico, despite a flurry of archaeological activity in the mid-twentieth century, have long been treated by archaeologists as a cultural backwater of the American Southwest. Boundary zone, frontier, and crossroads are labels that most...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Morgan. Chris Loendorf. M. Kyle Woodson.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Phoenix Basin in southern Arizona has some the earliest evidence of utilitarian plain ware pottery use anywhere in the US Southwest, with associated radiocarbon dates as early as ca. 350 BC, and ceramic production has continued unabated since that time. Although researchers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Medchill. Reylynne Williams. Teresa Rodrigues. Chris Loendorf.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The O’Odham of southern Arizona continue to participate in traditional sporting events, and a variety of organized competitions are still held today. Although they are one people, the O’Odham are currently organized into four Communities, which are collectively known as the Four...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Doelle. Skylar Begay. Ashleigh Thompson. Shannon Cowell.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology Southwest has elevated “Collaboration with Tribes” to the highest priority in our strategic plan. That is easy to do on paper, but we have found that multiple transformations at the organizational and staff levels are needed to implement this goal. It’s a process that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron Wright. John Welch.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Contemporary Piipaash of the Gila River and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Communities, in the greater Phoenix area of south-central Arizona, have histories tying them to the lower Gila and lower Colorado Rivers. These “down river” landscapes were their exclusive territories until...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Martynec. Sandra Martynec.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The application of archaeological strategies in conjunction with traditional knowledge has produced unprecedented results from recent projects conducted in southwestern Arizona and northwestern Sonora, Mexico. The Hia C-ed O’odham have occupied this area since at least AD...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Loendorf. Barnaby Lewis. Glen Rice.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Vapaki is plural in the O’Odham language for Vah’ki, which is the name used to refer to what archaeologists now call Classic period (ca. 1250–1450) platform mound villages. Importantly, Vah’ki is specifically applied only to platform mound sites, and the term is not used to refer...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Burger. Jonathon Curry. J. Andrew Darling. Thomas Jones. Andrea Gregory.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Akimel O’Odham are river people. During testing investigations for a roadway improvement project in Scottsdale, Arizona, sponsored by the Federal Highways Administration (FHWA) and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRP-MIC), a historical water feature was identified....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis Cureton. J. Andrew Darling.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Scholars of the Hohokam archaeological culture area have worked for decades to build a more comprehensive explanatory framework regarding the interpretation of vapaki, or ancestral O’Odham ceremonial houses. In 2023, an edited volume of the same name was published and represents a...