Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology; Archaeology and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
"Indigenous Archaeology and the Pueblo Revolt:
Challenging the Narratives of Conquest"
For many people Native Americans occupy marginal spaces within both historical narratives and popular culture. Native Americans are a largely invisible population- a people who seem to disappear from both history books and contemporary society with the arrival of Europeans. Anthropology, history and archaeology are fields which have made great contributions to the study of Indigenous histories, but too frequently emphasize disease, military conquest, acculturation and missionization as explanations of invisibility- what I would describe as "terminal narratives". How true are these widely held beliefs? The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, regarded by many as the most successful Indigenous rebellion in the Americas offers a powerful counter-narrative for historians and archaeologists. Using interdisciplinary methods, I explore the relationships between colonial violence, migration, social segregation and fundamentalism during the rebellion. I suggest a new method of interpreting the past (Indigenous archaeology) that explains the presence and vitality of Native Americans five centuries after Columbus.
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