Fear, Contradiction, and Coloniality in Settler Archaeology

Bondura, Valerie

doi:10.1080/19428200.2020.1884483

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“…While some archaeologists have conversely been among the key advocates for the protection of cemeteries, encouraging the conservation of burial markers and the upkeep of grounds, there has been a clear imbalance in the kinds of cemeteries positioned as priorities for preservation (Beisaw et al., 2021; Nichols, 2020; Seidemann and Halling, 2019). Implementing this legislation has been challenging, and the journey to repatriation for Indigenous peoples in the United States is far from complete (Atalay, 2018; Bondura, 2020; Colwell, 2017). Moreover, it is becoming increasingly clear that other racialized communities have suffered similar postmortem violence as Indigenous peoples in the United States and elsewhere (Atalay et al., 2020; Balanzátegui Moreno, 2018; de la Cova, 2019; De León, 2015; Dunnavant, Justinvil, and Colwell, 2021; Gust, Glover, and Houck, 2007; Lans, 2020; Lemke, 2020; Pierson, 2006; Watkins, 2022).…”

Section: Acknowledging Our Faults and Shifting Our Prioritiesmentioning

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“…What archaeologies of violence should not be are detached and lacking in “the passion and rage that a concept like violence engenders” (Wurst, 2020, 208–9). The authors of this special section have each been personally impacted by the stories recounted to us and their physical residues, testifying to the lingering effects of past violence (see also Atalay, 2018; Bondura, 2020, 150–51). In their own ways, the contributors show that to confront violence in the past and present is to contend not only with the acts that constitute it but with the materials and affects that accompany it.…”

Section: Taking Violence To Taskmentioning

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“…Scholars working in heritage contexts steeped in violence also seem to be challenging the discipline writ large to take stock of its affective dimensions (e.g., Bondura, 2020; Lydon, 2019; Rizvi, 2019) and recommit to reflexivity in research design and implementation (Fryer, 2020). That reflexivity reveals, among other things, archaeology's deeply relational practices.…”

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Dedrick

2023

American Anthropologist

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Dedrick

2023

American Anthropologist

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“…Indigenous peoples are vastly underrepresented in archaeology's professional organizations (Marek‐Martinez, 2021, 505). Hostility toward the repatriation of Indigenous ancestors, Indigenous knowledge, and collaboration with Indigenous nations continues to garner academic recognition (see Bondura, 2021; Colwell‐Chanthaphonh et al., 2010). Standard terminological and categorization schema—for example, distinguishing between “historic” and “prehistoric” lifeways—minimize Indigenous presence in colonial contexts (Kretzler, 2022).…”

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On Listening and Telling Anew: Possibilities for Archaeologies of Survivance

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Gonzalez

2023

American Anthropologist

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Archaeologists increasingly use Gerald Vizenor's concept of survivance in research on colonial-era Indigenous histories. However, these studies tend to situate survivance within the realm of archaeological interpretation, with less attention paid to the concept's broader intellectual tradition or implications for archaeological practice. In this article, we argue that deeper engagement with survivance scholarship stands to alter the process and product of materials-based Indigenous histories. We discuss four definitions of survivance-as histories of struggle and success, as practice, as situated response to settler colonialism, and as storytelling-highlighting how the concept may reframe or expand existing archaeologies of colonialism. We conclude with a case study drawn from our work with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. It traces the creative reexpression of historic foodways within the Grand Ronde community during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in northwestern Oregon. Archaeologies of survivance have the potential to reposition archaeologists and their Indigenous research partners as listeners to the survivance stories composed, lived, and told by historic Indigenous communities.

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Moving beyond Weiss and Springer’sRepatriation and Erasing the Past:Indigenous values, relationships, and research

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This commentary debunks the poor scholarship in Repatriation and Erasing the Past by Elizabeth Weiss and James Springer. We show that modern bioarchaeological practice with Indigenous remains places ethics, partnership, and collaboration at the fore and that the authors’ misconstructed dichotomous fallacy between “objective science” and Indigenous knowledge and repatriation hinders the very argument they are espousing. We demonstrate that bioarchaeology, when conducted in collaboration with stakeholders, enriches research, with concepts and methodologies brought forward to address common questions, and builds a richer historical and archaeological context. As anthropologists, we need to acknowledge anti-Indigenous (and anti-Black) ideology and the insidious trauma and civil rights violations that have been afflicted and re-afflicted through Indigenous remains being illegally or unethically obtained, curated, transferred, and used for research and teaching in museums and universities. If we could go so far as to say that anything good has come out of this book, it has been the stimulation in countering these beliefs and developing and strengthening ethical approaches and standards in our field.

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Fear, Contradiction, and Coloniality in Settler Archaeology

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