Relational Native Ontology and Tewa Ethnogenesis in the Pueblo of Pojoaque

Summary

This paper recognizes the collaborative potential between American Indian Studies and an emerging landscape archaeology in furthering interdisciplinary studies of the American Southwest. Here the authors call for the continued reinterpretation of ancestral and contemporary Tewa sites by employing Native ontological and decolonized historical approaches to archaeological and ethnographic contexts situated in the backdrop of a larger and active cultural landscape. Such methods offer nuanced insight into the functions and meanings relating to multiple interacting identity communities through time, population movements, and other types of migration. In particular, we discuss the effects of early Spanish colonialism and later American colonialism, mass migrations, indigenous language, and the potential relationship between archaeological inquiry and Pueblo people in what is now the modern day Pueblo of Pojoaque.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Becoming

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Abstract Id(s): 14726