Neither Contact nor Colonial: Seneca Iroquois Local Political Economies, 1675-1754
Author(s): Kurt Jordan
Year: 2016
Summary
Fine-grained attention to the material conditions of indigenous daily lives over time reveals myriad changes completely incapable of being explained by models such as "traditional sameness" or "acculturative change." Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) sites were occupied for only 15-40 years before planned abandonment, so examining a sequence of these sites provides an excellent way to look at change over time. This paper examines local dynamics at three Seneca sites, illustrating strategic Seneca engagements with dynamic local and regional conditions over time. Seneca practices 150 years after the first recorded "contacts" promoted a supple form of social autonomy, navigating the opportunities and challenges arising from engagements with European colonists and other indigenous groups.
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Neither Contact nor Colonial: Seneca Iroquois Local Political Economies, 1675-1754. Kurt Jordan. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434561)
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Keywords
General
Haudenosaunee
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indigenous autonomy
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Political economy
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1675-1754
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 419
Notes
General Note: Interested researchers should consult the published version of this paper, which is Kurt A. Jordan and Peregrine A. Gerard-Little, 'Neither Contact nor Colonial: Seneca Iroquois Local Political Economies, 1670-1754' in Heather Law Pezzarossi and Russell N. Sheptak, editors: Indigenous Persistence in the Colonized Americas: Material and Documentary Perspectives on Entanglement. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pages 39-56 (2019).