ANT 387 Indigeneity and Archaeology in North America
How do Indigenous groups approach the practice of archaeology and the history of human settlement in North America? This seminar examines broad topics of Native American settlement, power, exchange, and culture change from a cross-disciplinary perspective that includes archaeological perspectives and present-day oral traditions. A survey of cultural development in areas of the southwestern, central plains, and southeastern areas of the continent will be provided. Major debates in North American archaeology will be scrutinized in regard to the first migrations to North America, subsistence systems, political strategies, and economic exchange. By doing so, this course will reveal how differing viewpoints of the past contribute to a more inclusive anthropological understanding that has relevance to modern descendant communities.