Mapping Bison: Oral Traditions from Picuris Pueblo, NM, on Bison Procurement

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This poster explores resilience and survivance of important animal-human economic, spiritual, and cultural traditions through the geospatial lens by mapping and describing ethnographic and archaeological interactions with Bison bison and Picuris Pueblo in the long term. In the Puebloan world, bison-human interactions are constrained by geographic and later colonial pressures in the Southwest. However, on the borderlands of northern New Mexico, Picuris Pueblo over the last 800 years has continued to assert their ties to bison through trading, hunting, and now bison herd management. Visualizing the extent of Picuris and northern Tiwa interactions with the environment and important species such as Bison is crucial to arguing for the large-scale, long-term occupation of Picuris within the northern Rio Grande and the western Plains. This research therefore contributes to the Pueblo's land rights and water rights litigation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 36875.0