The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism
Challenging History in the Great Lakes
Outside the Hacienda Walls
The Archaeology of Plantation Peonage in Nineteenth-Century Yucatán
Drawing on a dozen years of archaeological and historical investigation, Allan Meyers breaks new ground in the study of Yucatán haciendas. He presents original data and fresh interpretations on settlement organization, social stratification, and spatial relationships.
Crafting History in the Northern Plains
A Political Economy of the Heart River Region, 1400–1750
When Worlds Collide
Hunter-Gatherer World-System Change in the 19th Century Canadian Arctic
The Inuvialuit region is the most under-reported and least-known portion of the North American Arctic, beyond its immediate community of anthropological/archaeological practitioners, and this book helps address that lacuna.
Where the Wind Blows Us
Practicing Critical Community Archaeology in the Canadian North
Revolt
An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico
Traditional text-based accounts tend to focus on the revolt and the Spaniards’ reconquest in 1692—completely skipping over the years of indigenous independence that occurred in between. Revolt boldly breaks out of this mold and examines the aftermath of the uprising in colonial New Mexico, focusing on the radical changes it instigated in Pueblo culture and society.
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions
New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory
A Tale of Three Villages
Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in Southwestern Alaska, 1740–1950
Unsettling Mobility
Mediating Mi’kmaw Sovereignty in Post-contact Nova Scotia
Since contact, attempts by institutions such as the British Crown and the Catholic Church to assimilate indigenous peoples have served to mark those people as “Other” than the settler majority. In Unsettling Mobility, Michelle A. Lelièvre examines how mobility has complicated, disrupted, and—at times—served this contradiction at the core of the settler colonial project. Drawing on archaeological, ethnographic, and archival fieldwork conducted with the Pictou Landing First Nation—one of thirteen Mi’kmaw communities in Nova Scotia—Lelièvre argues that, for the British Crown and the Catholic Church, mobility has been required not only for the settlement of the colony but also for the management and conversion of the Mi’kmaq.
Becoming Brothertown
Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World
Challenging Colonial Narratives
Nineteenth-Century Great Lakes Archaeology
Decolonizing Indigenous Histories
Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology
Narratives of Persistence
Indigenous Negotiations of Colonialism in Alta and Baja California
Alluvium and Empire
The Archaeology of Colonial Resettlement and Indigenous Persistence on Peru’s North Coast
Alluvium and Empire examines the archaeology of Indigenous communities and landscapes that were subject to Spanish colonial forced resettlement during the sixteenth century. Written at the intersections of history and archaeology, the book critiques previous approaches to the study of empire and models a genealogical approach that attends to the open-ended—and often unpredictable—ways in which empires take shape.
Decolonizing “Prehistory”
Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America
Decolonizing “Prehistory” critically examines and challenges the paradoxical role that modern historical-archaeological scholarship plays in adding legitimacy to, but also delegitimizing, contemporary colonialist practices. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume empowers Indigenous voices and offers a nuanced understanding of the American deep past.