Archaeologies of Placemaking: Monuments, Memories and Engagement in Native North America

258 Pages·2010·3.32 MB·English

by  Patricia E Rubertone

Archaeologies of Placemaking
One World Archaeology Series
Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress
Series Editors: Joan Gero, Mark Leone, and Robin Torrence
One World Archaeology volumes contain carefully edited selections of the exem-
plary papers presented at the World Archaeology Congress (WAC), held every
four years, and intercongress meetings. WAC gives place to considerations of
power and politics in framing archaeological questions and results. The organ-
ization also gives place and privilege to minorities who have often been silenced
or regarded as beyond capable of making mainline contributions to the fi eld. All
royalties from the series are used to help the wider work of the organization. The
series is published by Left Coast Press, Inc. beginning with volume 48.
59 Archaeologies of Placemaking, Patricia E. Rubertone (ed.)
58 Managing Archaeological Resources, Francis P. McManamon, Andrew Stout, and Jodi A. Barnes
(eds.)
57 Landscapes of Clearance, Angèle Smith and Amy Gazin-Schwartz (eds.)
56 Underwater and Maritime Archaeology in Latin America and the Caribbean, Margaret E.
Leshikar-Denton and Pilar Luna Erreguerena (eds.)
55 Archaeologies of Art, Inés Domingo Sanz, Dánae Fiore, and Sally K. May (eds.)
54 Archaeology and Capitalism, Yannis Hamilakis and Philip Duke (eds.)
53 Living Under the Shadow, John Grattan and Robin Torrence (eds.)
52 Envisioning Landscapes, Dan Hicks, Laura McAtackney, and Graham Fairclough (eds.)
51 Rethinking Agriculture, Tim Denham, José Iriarte, and Luc Vrydaghs (eds.)
50 A Fearsome Heritage, John Schofield and Wayne Cocroft (eds.)
49 Archaeology to Delight and Instruct, Heather Burke and Claire Smith (eds.)
48 African Re-Genesis, Jay B. Haviser and Kevin C. MacDonald (eds.)
Previous volumes in this series, available from Routledge:
47 Indigenous Archaeologies 25 The Presented Past
46 Archaeologies of the British 24 Social Construction of the Past
45 Natural Disasters and Cultural Change 23 Sacred Sites, Sacred Places
44 Matériel Culture 22 Tropical Archaeobotany
43 The Dead and their Possessions 21 Archaeology and the Information Age
42 Illicit Antiquities 20 The Archaeology of Africa
41 Destruction and Conservation of Cultural 19 Origins of Human Behaviour
Property 18 From the Baltic to the Black Sea
40 Madness, Disability and Social Exclusion 17 The Excluded Past
39 The Archaeology of Dry lands 16 Signifying Animals
38 The Archaeology of Difference 15 Hunters of the Recent Past
37 Time and Archaeology 14 What’s New?
36 The Constructed Past 13 Foraging and Farming
35 Archaeology and Language IV 12 The Politics of the Past
34 Archaeology and Language III 11 Centre and Periphery
33 Cultural Resource Management in 10 Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity
Contemporary Society 9 Archaeological Heritage Management in the
32 Prehistory of Food Modern World
31 Historical Archaeology 8 Confl ict in the Archaeology of Living
30 The Archaeology and Anthropology of Traditions
Landscape 7 Animals into Art
29 Archaeology and Language II 6 The Meaning of Things
28 Early Human Behaviour in the Global 5 Who Needs the Past?
Context 4 State and Society
27 Archaeology and Language I 3 Domination and Resistance
26 Time, Process and Structured Transformation 2 The Walking Larder
in Archaeology 1 What is an Animal?
Archaeologies of Placemaking
Monuments, Memories, and Engagement in
Native North America
Edited by
Patricia E. Rubertone
Walnut Creek, California

Contents
List of Illustrations 7
Acknowledgments 11
1. Engaging Monuments, Memories, and Archaeology 13
Patricia E. Rubertone
2. Paleo Is Not Our Word: Protecting and Growing 35
a Mi’kmaw Place
Donald M. Julien, Tim Bernard, and
Leah Morine Rosenmeier
3. Always Multivocal and Multivalent: 59
Conceptualizing Archaeological Landscapes
in Arizona’s San Pedro Valley
Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, T. J. Ferguson, and
Roger Anyon
4. Placemaking on the Northern Rio Grande: 81
A View from Kuaua Pueblo
Robert W. Preucel and Frank G. Matero
5. Multiple Places, Histories, and Memories 101
at a Frontier Icon in Apache Country
John R. Welch
6. Claiming an “Unpossessed Country”: Monuments 135
to Ownership and Land Loss in Death Valley
Paul J. White
7. Landscapes of Memory in Wampanoag 161
Country—and the Monuments upon Them
Russell G. Handsman
8. Memorializing the Narragansett: Placemaking and 195
Memory Keeping in the Aftermath of Detribalization
Patricia E. Rubertone
9. Jamestown’s 400th Anniversary: Old Themes, 217
New Words, New Meanings for Virginia Indians
Jeffrey L. Hantman
Index 243
About the Authors 253

List of Illustrations
Figures
Figure 2.1 Map of Mi’kma’ki, the Mi’kmaw homeland 36
Figure 2.2 ATV and motocross activity disturbance of the 47
MacDonald site, 2006
Figure 2.3 Flake in the midst of ATV and motocross 47
disturbance, 2006
Figure 2.4 Recent fence with signage at the original Debert site, 48
2006
Figure 2.5 Area surrounding the Debert and Belmont sites 49
slated for intensive industrial development
Figure 3.1 Modern-day location of tribes participating in the 60
San Pedro Ethnohistory Project
Figure 3.2 Hopi research team discussing clan migration 61
traditions at the Reeve Ruin
Figure 3.3 Perry Tsadiasi and Octavius Seowtewa discussing 65
Salado polychrome pottery with other Zuni
researchers at the Arizona State Museum
Figure 3.4 A model of the cultural landscape 68
Figure 4.1 Location of Kuaua Pueblo (Coronado State 82
Monument), New Mexico
Figure 4.2 Aerial view of Coronado State Monument showing 83
the reconstructed village and the museum
Figure 4.3 Adolph Bandelier’s sketch map of Kuaua Pueblo in 87
1882
Figure 4.4 Design for the museum at Coronado State 90
Monument by John Gaw Meem
Figure 4.5 Restoration of Kiva 3 with a copy of one of the 93
original mural sequences
Figure 4.6 Opening of the Coronado State Monument in 1940 95
Figure 4.7 Wall erosion at Kuaua, 1997 97
Figure 5.1 Map of Western Apache and Chiricahua lands and 102
reservations showing places mentioned in the text
Figure 5.2 1872 log cabin sometimes referred to as Crook’s 113
Quarters at the west end of offi cers’ row
Figure 5.3 Oblique aerial view of the Fort Apache and 114
Theodore Roosevelt School district
Figure 5.4 Watercolor of Camp (Fort) Apache from the south 116
in 1873
Figure 5.5 Navajo girls in the morning shade immediately 118
following arrival at Theodore Roosevelt School,
1923
Figure 5.6 Navajo girls in the afternoon sun at Theodore 118
Roosevelt School, 1923
Figure 5.7 Drill practice on the former parade ground with 119
offi cers’ row and the former commanding offi cer’s
quarters in the background, ca. 1926
Figure 5.8 Leaders at the opening prayer for intercultural 127
reconciliation at the fi rst Ndee Łade (Gathering of
the People) Fort Apache Heritage Reunion
Figure 6.1 Death Valley National Monument, California, 137
showing 1933 boundaries and places mentioned in
the text
Figure 6.2 Monuments at the northeastern corner of Indian 140
Allotment 330
Figure 6.3 Present-day view looking west at Püaitungani in 144
Johnson Canyon
Figure 6.4 Hungry Bill’s allotment in Johnson Canyon 148
Figure 6.5 Bob Thompson in front of his residence and fi g 151
orchard at Pabuna (Warm Spring), 1935
Figure 6.6 Indian Allotment 330 and mining claims 152
constructed at Warm Spring
Figure 7.1 The Pilgrim’s Progress, reenacted every day during 162
Plymouth’s Tercentenary Celebration
Figure 7.2 Samuel de Champlain’s map of Port St. Louis, 165
the Wampanoag homeland around present-day
Plymouth
Figure 7.3 Map of locations and place-names in Wampanoag 166
Country
Figure 7.4 The baldachino and Plymouth Rock as seen from 179
Cole’s Hill
Figure 7.5 National Monument to the Forefathers 181
Figure 7.6 Cole’s Hill and Plymouth Rock beneath the new 185
portico erected for the Tercentenary Celebration
Figure 7.7 Two Passamaquoddy making their way to 186
Plymouth for the Tercentenary Celebration
Figure 7.8 Statue of Massasoit in Plymouth 187
Figure 8.1 Map of Rhode Island showing the locations of 197
Memorial Rock and the Canonicus Monument
Figure 8.2 Memorial Rock at Fort Ninigret 201
Figure 8.3 Map of Narragansett Indian lands made for the 204
detribalization hearings
Figure 8.4 The Canonicus Monument at North Burial Ground 207
Figure 8.5 The dedication of the Canonicus Monument, 1883 208
Figure 8.6 The Canonicus Monument, Westminster Street, 210
1996
Figure 9.1 Map of Jamestown Island, Virginia, showing the 220
locations of the Jamestown Settlement and property
owned by the Association for the Preservation of
Virginia Antiquities
Figure 9.2 A historic place designated in 2007 by the Virginia 229
Historical Highway Marker program recognizing
the headquarters of Opechancanough, a Powhatan
paramount chief
Figure 9.3 Houses in the reconstructed Powhatan village at 235
the Jamestown Settlement living history museum
Figure 9.4 Two reconstructed ships at the Jamestown 236
Settlement living history museum
Tables
Table 2.1 How L’nuk lived in Mi’kma’ki 43
Table 3.1 Lévi-Strauss’s matrix of date classes 75
Table 7.1 History of Plymouth’s population 182
Table 9.1 Titles of historical highway markers approved by 230
Virginia Council on Indians