Spaces of Survivance: Recovering Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Homesteads Misrecorded in Archaeological Literature

Summary

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

Historic Indigenous sites are often mislabeled in archaeological literature. As some scholars have explained, a common reason for this stems from the conventional practice of labeling cultural affiliation based on traditional artifact classifications. More recently, others have discussed how past preservation ethics within the cultural resource management industry have prevented sites associated with historically marginalized communities from being recorded. In this paper, we review a century's worth of federally-funded surveys conducted within the geographic boundaries of the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma. While our results convey a historic exclusion of Indigenous sites from the archaeological literature, we offer a few viable practices to prevent this practice from continuing.

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

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Abstract Id(s): 41478.0