Indigenous Cultural Resource Ceremonies

Summary

Indigenous Cultural Resource Ceremonies looks at the relationship that Indigenous people have with archaeological sites and with sacred places. Spiritual connections that Indigenous people have with the land, waters and even with the stars and with the cycles of the moon. How is this relationship defined within modern archaeology and cultural resource management today? The relationship and the connections to places that we originate from. The villages, communities, towns, and the cities. Places are a way in which we identify ourselves, in Ojibwe culture that is the traditional way to introduce one’s self. Your dodem and where you’re from. Just like these artifacts that lay beneath the ground. What is it that lays there? What is the type of artifact or place? What is the age of the artifact or site? Where you’re from, your community? This is one of the many ways that indigenous cultural resource ceremony is defined within everyday lives of Indigenous people. People have been interpreting our past and our cultures without having a clear understanding of whom we really are as a people and have little or no understanding of our cultures and our spiritual beliefs.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Intersection of Sacredness and Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

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