Abstract
AbstractThis article attempts to bring Indigenous voices into the ongoing conversation about collecting practices and the archaeological record. The issue editors solicited responses to open-ended questions about those subjects from members of their own and issue contributors' networks of Indigenous collaborators and contacts. Alan D. Kelley (Deputy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska), Angela J. Neller (Curator, Wanapum Heritage Center, Washington), and Carlton Shield Chief Gover (PhD student in archaeology at the University of Colorado and member of the Skiri Band of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma) offered the answers reported here. We do not pretend to reflect the innumerable and highly varied Indigenous perspectives on the collection of their ancestors' material culture, but we do hope to plant the seeds of a more inclusive conversation than has been the norm in archaeology.
Highlights
This article attempts to bring Indigenous voices into the ongoing conversation about collecting practices and the archaeological record
Issue Editors (IE): Indigenous ancestors produced much of the American archaeological record
Careful documentation, recording, and research can help mitigate this loss, but archaeologists must acknowledge the harm done not just by private collectors but by generations of their own collecting practices. This fraught history complicates collaboration and communication among collectors, archaeologists, and tribes. The articles in this issue of Advances in Archaeological Practice represent a broad sampling of archaeologist–collector collaborative research projects in various stages of completion and with differing levels of Indigenous engagement
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I was formerly a member of the Kansas Water Office and Missouri Regional Advisory Committee. The work involves coordination and cooperation among all four tribes in Kansas; educational institutions, such as Haskell University and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (National Drought Mitigation Center and the High Plains Regional Climate Center); and federal and state partners, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Integrated Drought Information System, and the Kansas Water Office. I am in a unique position as curator: I support the Wanapum to care for their material culture and assist in the repatriation of their ancestors through the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the National Museum of the American Indian Act, and Washington. As adjunct faculty for Central Washington University, I teach museum curation and management, and I hope to instill in my students the importance of including descendant communities in their work. Using Indigenous oral traditions from the Pawnee, Arikara, and Wichita, I use the radiocarbon record from the Central Plains to date events distinguished in oral traditions and to identify periods of ethnogenesis and migration
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