Colonialism and Indigenous Diaspora in the American Northeast

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Perspectives from the Study of Early Colonial Encounter in North America: Is it time for a “revolution” in the study of colonialism?" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In the last two decades scholars have rejected the bifurcation of “continuity” or “change” in studies Indigenous experiences of early colonialism in North America. Instead, archaeologists increasingly favor process and practice approaches, along with multiscalar and diachronic analyses that use the present as a vantage point to examine long-term colonial consequences. This paper takes such an approach to examine the choices made by Indigenous communities in the American Northeast to uproot and relocate during the first waves of colonialism, and the short and long-term consequences of these decisions. I take a comparative approach, drawing on archaeological and historical evidence from Indigenous sites in the middle Connecticut River Valley, upper Hudson River Valley and Susquehanna Valley. I explore the material consequences of moving and the long-term outcomes it precipitated.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
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