Beyond Racism: Some Opinions about Racialism and American Archaeology

Echo-Hawk, Roger; Zimmerman, Larry J.

doi:10.1353/aiq.2006.0021

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“…He developed his awareness in the context of the Closet Chicken Coop, an online "virtual reality" founded in 2001 as a place for indigenous archaeologists and their allies to discuss and plan interventions into "American archeological storytelling that developed with little input from racial Indians and their communities" (see Echo-Hawk and Zimmerman 2006;Dongoske and Zimmerman 2010). The Coop provides Echo-Hawk with a discursive field within which to work out his post-racial identity in interactions with his fellow "closet chickens."…”

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The Emergence of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race and Culture in Native North America

Arndt¹

2014

Reviews in Anthropology

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In this essay, I review four recent publications on American Indian life in the United States, past and present, through the lens of indigeneity. While indigenous activism has been a central focus of recent work in anthropology and American Indian studies, Indigeneity is still emergent as a conceptual tool for historical and ethnographic work. This essay traces conceptual issues associated with more general discourses of indigeneity through the reviewed works in order to examine the relationship between the politics of indigeneity and the racialized structures of settler colonialism that still confront American Indian peoples in the United States.

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The Emergence of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race and Culture in Native North America

Arndt¹

2014

Reviews in Anthropology

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“…Indigenous archaeology is not the naive epistemological structure McGhee describes. In name, Indigenous archaeology does carry racialist overtones that can be problematic (Echo-Hawk and Zimmerman 2006), but in practice scholars have diligently avoided an identity politics that only Indigenous people can do Indigenous archaeology (Lippert 1997(Lippert ,2005(Lippert ,2006(Lippert ,2008a. As Sonya Malay (2008:30) has said, unequivocally, "Indigenous archaeology approaches are not simply critique and practice carried out by Indigenous people-one need not be a Native person to follow an Indigenous archaeology paradigm.…”

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The Premise and Promise of Indigenous Archaeology

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Researchers have increasingly promoted an emerging paradigm of Indigenous archaeology, which includes an array of practices conducted by, for, and with Indigenous communities to challenge the discipline's intellectual breadth and political economy. McGhee (2008) argues that Indigenous archaeology is not viable because it depends upon the essentialist concept of “Aboriginalism.” In this reply, we correct McGhee's description of Indigenous Archaeology and demonstrate why Indigenous rights are not founded on essentialist imaginings. Rather, the legacies of colonialism, sociopolitical context of scientific inquiry, and insights of traditional knowledge provide a strong foundation for collaborative and community-based archaeology projects that include Indigenous peoples.

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“…Indigenous archaeology is not the naive epistemological structure McGhee describes. In name, Indigenous archaeology does can)' racial ist overtones that can be problematic (Echo-Hawk and Zimmerman 2006), but in practice scholars have diligently avoided an identity politics that only Indigenous people can do Indigenous archaeology (Lippert 1997(Lippert , 2005(Lippert , 2006(Lippert , 2008a. As Sonya Ata lay (2008:30) has said, unequivocally, "Indigenous archaeology approaches are not simply critique and practice carried out by Indigenous people-one need not be a Native person to follow an Indige nous archaeology paradigm.…”

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The Value and Diversity of Indigenous Archaeology: A Response to McGhee

Silliman

2010

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Robert McGhee (2008) recently argued against the validity and viability of Indigenous archaeology based on claims that untenable “Aboriginalism” supports the entire enterprise. However, he mischaracterizes and simplifies Indigenous archaeology, despite the wealth of literature suggesting that such community approaches have had and will continue to have great value for method, theory, rigorous interpretation, and political value in archaeology.

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Beyond Racism: Some Opinions about Racialism and American Archaeology

Cited by 30 publications

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The Emergence of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race and Culture in Native North America

The Emergence of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race and Culture in Native North America

The Premise and Promise of Indigenous Archaeology

The Value and Diversity of Indigenous Archaeology: A Response to McGhee

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