Indigenous Stewardship, Comanagement, and Knowledge Production: A Perspective from the California Coast

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Resource management and academic disciplines focused on the study of cultural heritage and the environment have historically trained practitioners and hired for positions focused on either cultural or ecological aspects of the landscape. This dichotomy may be a convenient compartmentalization of knowledge and expertise from some perspectives on land and resource management at various scales (local, state, and national), but this separation of people from nature is contrary to the ways that many Indigenous knowledge systems conceive of relationships between people and the world around them (Nadasdy 2004). In considering cultural landscapes, archaeologists, ecologists, and land managers must work in collaboration with Tribes and Indigenous communities to ensure that these perspectives are integrated into more holistic land and resource stewardship. An example from Coast Miwok territory, or what is now Marin and Sonoma Counties, will be discussed.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37636.0