Archaeological Evidence of Economic Activities at an Eighteenth-Century Frontier Outpost in the Western Great Lakes

Nassaney, Michael S.; Brandão, José António; Cremin, William M.; Giordano, Brock A.

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“…While Fort St. Joseph is not a World Heritage site, it has garnered considerable local and regional interest for what it can tell us about the fur trade, colonialism, and daily life on the frontier of New France in the eighteenth-century ( Figure 1). Its nomination to the National Register of Historic Places on May 24, 1973 accords it national significance (Nassaney 2019a;Nassaney et al 2007) and it is potentially eligible for listing as a National Historic Landmark (Vergil Noble, personal communication, 2019).…”

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Sustaining an authentic community partnership through the Fort St. Joseph archaeological project

Nassaney

2020

Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage

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When community partners authorize investigations and interpretations of heritage sites, there is an increased likelihood that the needs and desires of various stakeholders will diverge. Further complications arise when natural forces threaten site integrity, making it incumbent on heritage professionals to reach reasoned decisions in the interest of the public good while balancing research and preservation needs. Community partnerships succeed when they contain the tensions between competing goals among partners. How do heritage professionals enter into and sustain large-scale, multi-year projects in the face of opposing demands, some of which come into conflict with ethical principles like site conservation? The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project suggests how navigating these turbulent waters can lead to sustainable practices with long-term mutual benefits. By preserving the past for the future at Fort St. Joseph, we aim to sustain the results of our investigations for future generations.

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Sustaining an authentic community partnership through the Fort St. Joseph archaeological project

Nassaney

2020

Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage

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“…Difficulties in the use of materially based chronologies become even more pronounced in Indigenous contexts. When using a materially based temporal framework, it becomes challenging to rectify observations that contradict typological frameworks, such as the persistence of Indigenous traditions, or more generally, the poor fit between established material breaks and historical continuity (Nassaney 2018). In this sense, we must “embrace anomalous data” and cases that challenge long-standing typological frameworks and narratives (Nassaney 2018:55).…”

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Enduring Traditions and the (Im)materiality of Early Colonial Encounters in the Southeastern United States

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Hernando de Soto's expedition through the southeastern United States between 1539 and 1543 is often regarded as a watershed moment for the collapse of Indigenous societies across the region. Historical narratives have proposed that extreme depopulation as a result of early contact destabilized Indigenous economies, politics, networks, and traditions. Although processes of depopulation and transformation were certainly set in motion by this and earlier colonial encounters, the timing, temporality, and heterogeneous rhythms of postcontact Indigenous histories remain unclear. Through the integration of radiocarbon and archaeological data from the Mississippian earthen platform mound at Dyar (9GE5) in central Georgia, we present a case of Indigenous endurance and resilience in the Oconee Valley that has long been obfuscated by materially based chronologies and typologies. Bayesian chronological modeling suggests that Indigenous Mississippian traditions persisted for up to 130 years beyond contact with European colonizers. We argue that advances in modeling radiocarbon dates, along with meaningful consultation/collaboration with descendant communities, can contribute to efforts that move us beyond a reliance on materially based chronologies that can distort and erase Indigenous histories.

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“…Archaeological investigations have been conducted on North American mercantile outposts established by British, French, Russian, and American fur trade companies that contained a few European or American managers, but also labor consortiums that might include, depending on the location, workers recruited from Eastern and Southeastern North American tribes, Métis, Pacific Islanders, Native Alaskans, and local native peoples (28)(29)(30)(31)(32). Another significant body of literature exists for British, French, and American plantations in the American South and Caribbean Islands that were comprised of colonial planters and various combinations of indentured servants, indigenous workers, and African slaves (33)(34)(35)(36).…”

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Dynamics of change in multiethnic societies: An archaeological perspective from colonial North America

Lightfoot

2015

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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This Perspective presents an overview of the archaeology of pluralistic colonies (approximately late 1500s-1800s) in North America. It complements the other special feature papers in this issue on ancient societies in Mesoamerica, the Near East, the Armenian Highlands, Peru, and China by presenting another body of literature for examining the dynamics of change in multiethnic societies from a different time and place. In synthesizing archaeological investigations of mercantile, plantation, and missionary colonies, this Perspective shows how this research is relevant to the study of pluralism in both historic and ancient societies in three ways. (i) It enhances our understanding of interethnic relationships that took place in complex societies with imposing political hierarchies and labor structures. (ii) It helps us to refine the methods used by archaeologists to define and analyze multiethnic communities that were spatially delimited by ethnic neighborhoods. Finally, (iii) it presents more than a half century of experimentation with various models (e.g., acculturation, creolization, ethnogenesis, and hybridity) that have been used to study the dynamics of culture change in multiethnic societies.European colonies | indigenous peoples | enslaved laborers | colonial hierarchies | ethnic neighborhoodsAn important issue in the study of the dynamics of change in multiethnic societies is understanding how pluralism may have created new forms of social relationships, cultural practices, and sociopolitical organizations over time. Archaeologists have long been interested in documenting ancient places where large, pluralistic populations resided. There is growing interest in the investigation of culture contact, pluralism, and social dynamics in ancient cultures using crosscultural, comparative analyses (1-3). The comparative study of social formations in complex societies is particularly timely for the field of archaeology (4, 5). That is why the papers in this PNAS Special Feature are so important: they make a significant contribution in broadening our perspective and understanding about the social dynamics of complex, multiethnic polities in Mesoamerica, the Near East, the Armenian Highlands, Peru, and China.The purpose of this Perspective is to place the PNAS papers into the broader archaeological literature on pluralistic places. It is important to recognize that an extensive body of research exists for the study of multiethnic communities. Since the 1960s historical archaeologists have used a diverse range of datasets, including archaeological materials, archival documents, ethnographic accounts, and oral traditions to examine interethnic interactions in colonial settings. I begin by presenting a brief overview on the archaeology of colonialism in North America that has focused on settler, managerial, and missionary colonies. I then outline how this research may be relevant for scholars working elsewhere in the world who are examining the dynamics of change in multiethnic societies characterized by notable politica...

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Archaeological Evidence of Economic Activities at an Eighteenth-Century Frontier Outpost in the Western Great Lakes

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

Sustaining an authentic community partnership through the Fort St. Joseph archaeological project

Sustaining an authentic community partnership through the Fort St. Joseph archaeological project

Enduring Traditions and the (Im)materiality of Early Colonial Encounters in the Southeastern United States

Dynamics of change in multiethnic societies: An archaeological perspective from colonial North America

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