Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology at Mohegan

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This poster showcases collaborative archaeological approaches to research and teaching on the Mohegan Reservation in southeastern Connecticut. It describes the Mohegan Archaeology Project, a long-running collaboration that records and studies the textures of 18th and 19th century reservation life. The project has two main forms, an archaeological field school and a tribal archaeology workshop. These two forms of collaborative research and teaching act together to: 1) shed new light on an under-studied and poorly documented era of Mohegan history, 2) bear witness to the material realities of settler colonialism, and 3) “remake” the discipline. It accomplishes the third goal by opening new interpretive spaces—including voices and forms of knowledge that have been traditionally overlooked and even disregarded in the discipline—in which to train the next generation of archaeologists.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40092.0