<html>Indaa bínatsíkęęs: Cyclical, Reciprocal and Relational Understandings of <i>Nígosdzán</i></html>
Author(s): Nicholas Laluk
Year: 2025
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Retelling Time in Indigenous-Colonial Interactions across North America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
As an evolving discipline that is hopefully and truly continually moving toward a path where Tribal and Indigenous communities across the world have complete control over their own identities, heritage, histories and futures how do we continue to challenge settler colonial narratives that continue to dominate the structure, definitions, and interpretations of time and space. How do we “blur the lines” or “flip the script” to really foreground Indigenous conceptions of land, time and space that not only ground such cultural foundations as empirical but contribute to reciprocal bonds with Nígosdzán (Mother Earth) since time immemorial and continued community well-being? This paper embraces what Rifkin (2017) states as “Indigenous temporalities” which look to engage the presence of Native experiences and how such experiences in reference to conceptualizing modes of Native time might exceed non-native mappings and histories. Through an Ndee (Apache) lens focusing on such conceptions as place, reciprocity and relationality various examples will be discussed that not only might help archaeologists to better understand “Indigenous temporalities” but how these conceptions can be engaged as expressions of Indigenous temporal sovereignty as well.
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Indaa bínatsíkęęs: Cyclical, Reciprocal and Relational Understandings of Nígosdzán. Nicholas Laluk. Presented at The 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2025 ( tDAR id: 509475)
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Keywords
General
Chronology
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Colonialism
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Dating Techniques
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North America
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 50537