Whose Indian History?

Richter, Daniel K.

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“…2. For critical discussions of the New Indian History, see Ned Blackhawk ( 2005), William T. Hagan (1997), and Daniel K. Richter (1993). For exemplary recent examples of such historical revisionism in the American Southwest, see Blackhawk (2006), James , Brian DeLay (2008), Ramón .…”

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New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: A Brief Introduction to the Colonial Period in the American Southwest

Douglass¹,

Graves²

2017

New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest

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With the Columbian Quincentenary just a few years off, the Society of American Archaeology (SAA) puzzled its role in anticipating the inevitable events that would surround the 500th anniversary of European-Native American interactions. I was a member of the Executive Committee of the SAA at the time, and the president asked me spearhead the society's efforts for observing the Columbian Quincentenary.Thanks to the support and encouragement of key SAA officers Don Fowler, Prudence Rice, Bruce Smith, and Jerry Sabloff, we were able to develop a plan. After exploring a number of options with the board, we settled upon a series of topical seminars that we dubbed Columbian Consequences.These nine public seminars, to be held over a three-year span, were designed to generate an accurate and factual assessment of what did-and what did not-transpire as a result of the Columbian encounter. We specifically tasked ourselves to probe the social, demographic, ecological, ideological, and human repercussions of European-Native American encounters across the Spanish Borderlands, spreading the word among both the scholarly community and the greater public at large.Although sponsored by the SAA, the Columbian Consequences enterprise rapidly transcended the traditional scope of archaeological inquiry, drawing together a diverse assortment of personalities and perspectives. We invited leading scholars of the day to synthesize current thinking about specific geographical settings across the Spanish Borderlands, which extend from St. Augustine (Florida) to San Francisco (California). Each overview was designed to provide a Native American context, a history of European involvement, and a summary of scholarly research.The structure was fairly simple. Each of three consecutive SAA annual meetings (in 1988, 1989, and 1990) hosted three Columbian Consequences seminars. The resulting three volumes were published by the Smithsonian Institution Press, which remarkably published each volume less than a year after the seminar papers were presented.The initial book, entitled Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West (Thomas 1989), tackled the European-Native American interface from the Pacific Slope across the southwestern heartland to East Texas, from Russian Fort Ross to southern Baja California. The archaeologists involved addressed material culture evidence regarding contact period sociopolitics, economics, iconography, and physical environment. Other authors attempted to provide a critical balance from the perspectives of American history, Native American studies, art history, ethnohistory, and geography.In the intermediate volume-Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands East (Thomas 1990)-nearly three dozen scholars pursued a similar agenda across La Florida, the greater Southeast, and the Caribbean.

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New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: A Brief Introduction to the Colonial Period in the American Southwest

Douglass¹,

Graves²

2017

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“…2. For critical discussions of the New Indian History, see Ned Blackhawk (2005), William T. Hagan (1997), and Daniel K. Richter (1993). For exemplary recent examples of such historical revisionism in the American Southwest, see Blackhawk (2006), James , Brian DeLay (2008), Ramón .…”

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O’odham Irrigated Agriculture Response to Colonization on the Middle Gila River, Southern Arizona

Strawhacker¹

2017

New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest

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the editors of this volume, have told me that the Columbian Consequences project served as a catalyst for the initial symposium entitled "Transformations during the Colonial Era: Divergent Histories in the American Southwest," subsequently published as this volume. They also asked me to write a few words about the Columbian Consequences effort, from a quarter-century perspective.The roots of Columbian Consequences run back to the late 1980s, a time of considerable stress and not a little self-reflection in the Americanist archaeological community. A decade of repatriation and reburial debate would culminate in the 1990 The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) legislation. Competing paradigms of processual and postprocessual archaeology generated lively conversations about future directions of archaeological theory. The rapid growth of applied archaeology (in the form of cultural resource management) tested the conventionally academic structure of the archaeological profession. Long-standing issues of gender bias clouded archaeological interpretations of the past and the practice of archaeology in the present. xvi | ForewordWith the Columbian Quincentenary just a few years off, the Society of American Archaeology (SAA) puzzled its role in anticipating the inevitable events that would surround the 500th anniversary of European-Native American interactions. I was a member of the Executive Committee of the SAA at the time, and the president asked me spearhead the society's efforts for observing the Columbian Quincentenary.Thanks to the support and encouragement of key SAA officers Don Fowler, Prudence Rice, Bruce Smith, and Jerry Sabloff, we were able to develop a plan. After exploring a number of options with the board, we settled upon a series of topical seminars that we dubbed Columbian Consequences.These nine public seminars, to be held over a three-year span, were designed to generate an accurate and factual assessment of what did-and what did not-transpire as a result of the Columbian encounter. We specifically tasked ourselves to probe the social, demographic, ecological, ideological, and human repercussions of European-Native American encounters across the Spanish Borderlands, spreading the word among both the scholarly community and the greater public at large.Although sponsored by the SAA, the Columbian Consequences enterprise rapidly transcended the traditional scope of archaeological inquiry, drawing together a diverse assortment of personalities and perspectives. We invited leading scholars of the day to synthesize current thinking about specific geographical settings across the Spanish Borderlands, which extend from St. Augustine (Florida) to San Francisco (California). Each overview was designed to provide a Native American context, a history of European involvement, and a summary of scholarly research.The structure was fairly simple. Each of three consecutive SAA annual meetings (in 1988, 1989, and 1990) hosted three Columbian Consequences seminars. The resulting three volum...

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“…It can now be said with some assurance that many of the fears expressed by Daniel Richter in the early 1990s have proven overstated, especially that "the scholarship on the Indian peoples of early America may be running out of fuel" (379). 15 Indeed, as the studies featured in this essay illustrate, American Indian historians have been hard at work over the past decade, building on the foundation put down by New Indian historians. Like much of the New Indian history, the best of this scholarship combines the creative use of sources, ethnographic perspectives (including Native voices), meticulous analysis, theoretical sophistication, and an active engagement with ongoing and wide-ranging conversations in ways that enhance the study of Native peoples, while also encouraging scholars in other fields and disciplines to think in more careful and creative ways about American Indians.…”

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Beyond the New Indian History: Recent Trends in the Historiography on the Native Peoples of North America

Rosenthal

2006

History Compass

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Since its emergence over thirty years ago, the New Indian history has had a tremendous impact on studies of Native peoples in North America. Nonetheless, in crucial ways and for various reasons, scholarship on American Indians often remains isolated from larger currents of North American history. Just over the last decade, a handful of works have built on the foundations of the New Indian history and more consciously put American Indians into wide ranging conversations about North American culture and society. It is this current wave of scholarship that holds the most promise for moving the study of American Indians beyond the New Indian history and into an even more fruitful period where the connections between the experiences of American Indians and those of other North Americans draw increasing interest and examination.

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Whose Indian History?

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New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: A Brief Introduction to the Colonial Period in the American Southwest

New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: A Brief Introduction to the Colonial Period in the American Southwest

O’odham Irrigated Agriculture Response to Colonization on the Middle Gila River, Southern Arizona

Beyond the New Indian History: Recent Trends in the Historiography on the Native Peoples of North America

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