Collaborative Decolonial Approaches to Narrative in the Coastal Heritage at Risk Taskforce

Summary

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

Florida stands to lose more recorded sites to sea-level rise than any other state in the region, with nearly 4,000 estimated to be lost to a one-meter rise. For many of these heritage sites, untold stories of Florida history that are currently missing from the public record will also fade into obscurity as destruction occurs due to sea-level rise. Many of these stories are of marginalized groups who encountered violence from the start of Florida state history, and who often had to flee their communities or were forcibly removed by city planners or state military. These sites include the stories of the Underground “Saltwater” Railroad, and the forced removal of Indigenous people to internment camps on the west coast of Florida. The Coastal Heritage at Risk Task Force (CHART) team is a partnership of public, private, academic, and government entities. In this paper, our team will discuss collaborative decolonial approaches to narrative development working with Seminole THPO and the National Museum of the Bahamas. CHART’s aim is to create visibility of at-risk coastal heritage sites and their untold stories in Florida for secondary education classrooms and the public, while also assessing site risk for future adaptation strategies.

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): 40292.0