Community Accountable Archaeology at Old Leupp

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boarding And Residential Schools: Healing, Survivance And Indigenous Persistence", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Our team of Navajo and Nikkei scholars is negotiating community-accountable research design, following the interests of descendant communities near the carceral site of Old Leupp on the Navajo reservation. This former United States federal Indian boarding school and war relocation site echoes in the community histories it has deeply impacted, including transformations to the landscape, the remains of the school itself and their relationships to the current community. To co-create a community driven living site project, centered on the history and archaeology of the site, we begin with seeking guidance of the Leupp community, foregrounding capacity building and community directed goals. With the practice of care, we hope to partner with the Leupp community using archaeology as a tool engage younger generations around the history and understand the intersections of Japanese American and Navajo history within the traumas and contemporary renegotiations of its meaning and utility to living people.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Boarding And Residential Schools: Healing, Survivance And Indigenous Persistence   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow