Bridging Voices around a Circle of Dialogue between Tupi Guarani, Tuxa, and Eastern Pequot Peoples through an Activist and Social Latin American Archaeology

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This is an abstract from the "Weaving Epistemes: Community-Based Research in Latin America" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper presents the results of the first panel named “Indigenous Archaeologies, Territories, and Human Rights” as part of the seminar “Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples in the Americas: Collaboration, Archaeology, Repatriation, and Heritage,” an inter-institutional collaboration between the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on Evolution, Culture and Environment (MAE-University of São Paulo) and the Latin American Historical Archeology Lab (Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston). The seminar aims to ground intercultural exchanges on constructing political platforms that nurture strategic plans for Indigenous and African-descendent communities engaged in collaborative archaeological and heritage research. The first panel articulated the voices and agendas of Tupi Guarani, Tuxá (Brazil), and Eastern Pequot (USA) Indigenous peoples on dialogues around the topics of identities, recognition of their ancestral territories, decolonizing academia, linguistic revitalization, and politics of heritage. This conversation shed light on the shared history of colonization but, above all, on how the resistance of indigenous peoples has preserved their deep connections despite the weight of geopolitical and racial violence in the Americas. Their proposal for the future is based on strategies rooted in education and art expressions as tools in the struggle for civil rights.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Weaving Epistemes: Community-Based Research in Latin America   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39219.0