Mapping Graves at an Indian Boarding School Cemetery: Results from Chemawa in Salem, Oregon

Summary

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

Indian boarding school cemeteries are a controversial issue in North America, and each comes with unique challenges. As part of the senior author’s doctoral research, we recently applied, during various seasons, a range of geophysical survey and mapping techniques to the Chemawa Indian Boarding School cemetery in Salem, Oregon. Chemawa was founded in 1880 and is one of the oldest continuously in-use schools in the United States. In this paper we discuss the pluses and minuses of radar survey and show how a multi-instrument approach produced the best results in seasonal variations.

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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Abstract Id(s): 37550.0