<i>Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice</i>. Joe Watkins

Sebastian, Lynne

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“…Archaeologists and the American public must move beyond narratives of Native American destruction, victimization, or "collapse" by focusing instead on the cultural creativity, success, resiliency and survival of Native American and Indigenous societies and peoples (Pyburn 2005, 3;Silliman 2010, 150). One way to accomplish this in the field of archaeology is through implementing the theory and methods of Indigenous archaeology (see Atalay 2006Atalay , 2010Atalay , 2012Bruchac and Hart 2010;Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Ferguson 2008;Cowie, Teeman, and LeBlanc 2019;Dongoske, Aldenderfer, and Koehner 2000;Ferguson 1996;Ferguson and Colwell-Chanthaphonh 2006;Hays-Gilpin, Lyons, and Herr 2021;Kawelu 2015;Kerber 2006;Kuwanwisiwma et al 2018;Nicholas and Andrews 1997;Peck, Siegfried, and Oetalaar 2003;Rossen 2015;Silliman 2008;Smith and Wobst 2005;Watkins 2000;Watkins and Ferguson 2005). Indigenous archaeology can be defined in part as "an expression of archeological theory and practice in which the discipline intersects with Indigenous values, knowledge, practices, ethics, and sensibilities, and through collaborative and community-originated or directed projects, and related critical perspectives" (Nicholas 2008(Nicholas , 1660.…”

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4 Decolonizing Research for My Diné (Navajo) Community: The Old Leupp Boarding School Historic Site

Bears

2022

Archaeological Papers of the American

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The Old Leupp Boarding School (OLBS) was a Federal Indian Boarding School in operation from 1909–1942 on the southwest Navajo Reservation. It currently exists as a historical archaeology site, and it is an important place to the local Navajos of Leupp and Birdsprings, Arizona. Due to the nature of cultural resource management projects on the Navajo Reservation, which occur prior to development, in‐depth research of Navajo archaeological sites and collaboration with the Navajo public does not usually occur. With the support of local Navajo communities, my decolonizing research documents the history of the OLBS from a Diné (Navajo) perspective, as I explore Diné survivance and resistance within the context of this school. I argue that children utilized their Diné traditional cultural foundations to survive and resist assimilation imposed upon them by the U.S. government at Leupp. In keeping with Navajo cultural norms, I incorporate non‐destructive research methods including oral history interviews with Navajo elders, who attended the OLBS in the early twentieth century, and archival research to investigate the history of the OLBS. My research contributes to decolonizing and post‐colonial anthropological/archaeological research, Navajo Studies, and Native American and Indigenous Studies.

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4 Decolonizing Research for My Diné (Navajo) Community: The Old Leupp Boarding School Historic Site

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2022

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“…Indigenous, African Diaspora, feminist, queer, and Marxist archaeologies have pushed the larger discipline to acknowledge and explicitly engage with contemporary and historical relationships of power (Atalay 2006; Atalay et al. 2014b; Battle‐Baptiste 2011; Blackmore 2011; Delle, Mrozowski, and Paynter 2000; Dowson 2000; Franklin and McKee 2004; Fryer and Raczek 2020b; LaRoche and Blakey 1997; Matthews 2005; McGuire 1992; Watkins 2000). This body of literature builds on public and community‐engaged archaeology, itself a tradition of critical archaeology tied to social movements of the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries (e.g., Potter 1994).…”

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“…Research projects in this tradition have contributed significantly to archaeological thought by reconceptualizing notions of stewardship and authorship based on the knowledge of Indigenous and descendant communities (Atalay 2010; Lippert 2006; Nicholas and Andrews 1997; Smith, Morgan, and Van Der Meer 2003; Supernant 2020; Wilcox 2010), the historical contexts of survivance for colonized groups (Montgomery and Colwell 2019; Silliman 2014), and archaeological ethics and responsibilities at large toward contemporary Indigenous, descendant, and local communities (Atalay 2012; Watkins 2000). Indigenous archaeology is itself a diverse and varied field, but the shared ethic at the heart of these approaches—of collaboration, mutual respect, contemporary political engagement, and efforts to decolonize the discipline of archaeology (Bruchac, Hart, and Wobst 2010; Colwell‐Chanthaphonh et al.…”

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1 Exploring the Contemporary in Old Places

Taylor

Sesma

2022

Archaeological Papers of the American

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This chapter opens an analytic space to consider the resonance of “old places” in the contemporary moment through the lens of archaeology. Borrowing the term used by some of our interlocutors, old places are places that bear memory, that have accrued emotional attachment, and that intervene in the present as reminders of things that have happened before. Through these qualities, old places sustain life and relations. We adopt an expansive view of site formation processes that extends into the present and future and argue that studying contemporary site formation can unleash insights into the multi‐temporal constitution of the world we inhabit. We do not insist on a single approach to studying these processes, but rather suggest that the methodological and theoretical diversity that archaeologists and local communities bring together is key to studying and knowing old places in the present. We draw connections between a contemporary archaeology of old places and the emergent fields of contemporary archaeology and critical heritage studies, but also argue for retaining and fully incorporating the political and activist orientations of historical, feminist, African Diaspora, and Indigenous archaeologies—fields that have long centered the knowledge and concerns of contemporary communities—into this work.

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“…Os questionamentos da arqueologia junto às comunidades tradicionais envolvem, também, aspectos de política, patrimônio, poder e memória. (LAYTON, 1994a(LAYTON, , 1994bBOND, 1994;WATKINS, 2000;TORRENCE e CLARK, 2000;SMITH e WOBST, 2005;. Para tanto, é importante ter em conta os aspectos e desdobramentos do olhar local sobre uma certa 'cultura material'.…”

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Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice. Joe Watkins

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4 Decolonizing Research for My Diné (Navajo) Community: The Old Leupp Boarding School Historic Site

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