Collaborative Research: Evaluating Indigenous Strategies Of Multicultural Interaction

合作研究：评估多元文化互动的本土策略

• 批准号: 1559666
• 负责人: Lee Panich
• 金额: $ 10.48万
• 依托单位: Santa Clara University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2020-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1559666&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Evaluating; Indigenous; Strategies

Drs. Lee Panich, of Santa Clara University, and Tsim Schneider, of the University of California Santa Cruz, will direct a collaborative research project to understand how Native American societies persisted under Euro-American colonialism. While common understandings of colonial impacts on indigenous peoples in the Americas have focused on depopulation and loss of cultural traditions, archaeological research is uniquely positioned to offer insight into the active strategies Native Americans employed to navigate the changes of the colonial period. Archaeological data can be used to track developments that are not well represented in historical documents, such as long-term adjustments to indigenous social organization, mobility, and economic connections. By examining how Native Americans drew upon existing social and cultural patterns to negotiate increasingly complex interactions with Euro-American colonists, scholars can better understand the autonomy exercised by indigenous societies despite the challenges they faced in the colonial era. Because contemporary notions of Native American sovereignty largely hinge on the events of the colonial period, this research is directly relevant to broader debates about indigenous culture change and the popular and governmental recognition of Native American groups today. It is also relevant to understanding the nature of multi-ethnic interactions which occur in many regions of the contemporary world and how ethnic groups negotiate with and are incorporated into nation states.The project expands the focus of archaeological studies of colonialism beyond European settlements and first contact situations to investigate how native people living outside of direct colonial control selectively engaged with different colonial institutions over time. Drs. Panich and Schneider, along with their research team, will examine these issues on the Pacific Coast of central California, where local Coast Miwok groups lived at the crossroads of the Spanish, Russian, Mexican, and American frontiers. The research is designed to evaluate Native Americans' different strategies for maintaining autonomy at four politically and economically important village sites that were occupied from prehistoric times through the colonial period. Data will be drawn from targeted archaeological investigations, state-of-the-art laboratory analysis of archaeological materials collected during the mid-twentieth century, a GIS database of regional archaeological sites, and a systematic review of relevant ethnographic and historical literature. Working in conjunction with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, the researchers will provide training in archaeological methods to tribal scholars as well as university students. The investigators will work closely with the tribe and local landowners to use the results of the project to develop culturally sensitive stewardship guidelines and public interpretive materials.

圣克拉拉大学的Lee Panich博士和加州大学圣克鲁斯的Tsim Schneider博士将指导一个合作研究项目，以了解美洲原住民社会如何在欧美殖民主义下持续存在。虽然人们对殖民对美洲原住民影响的共同理解集中在人口减少和文化传统的丧失上，但考古研究具有独特的优势，可以深入了解美洲原住民为应对殖民时期的变化而采取的积极策略。考古数据可以用来追踪历史文献中没有很好体现的发展，例如对土著社会组织、流动性和经济联系的长期调整。通过研究美洲原住民如何利用现有的社会和文化模式，与欧美殖民者进行日益复杂的互动，学者们可以更好地理解土著社会行使的自治权，尽管他们在殖民时代面临的挑战。由于当代美洲原住民主权的概念在很大程度上取决于殖民时期的事件，这项研究是直接相关的土著文化的变化和民间和政府承认今天的美洲原住民群体更广泛的辩论。它也是相关的理解的多民族互动的性质，发生在当代世界的许多地区，以及民族群体如何谈判，并纳入nations.The项目扩大了殖民主义考古研究的重点超越欧洲定居点和第一次接触的情况下，调查如何直接殖民控制以外的土著人民生活在不同的殖民机构有选择地参与随着时间的推移。帕尼奇博士和施奈德博士以及他们的研究团队将沿着，在加州中部的太平洋海岸研究这些问题，当地的海岸米沃克群体居住在西班牙、俄罗斯、墨西哥和美国边境的十字路口。这项研究旨在评估美洲原住民在四个政治和经济上重要的村庄遗址维持自治的不同策略，这些村庄从史前时代到殖民时期都被占领。数据将来自有针对性的考古调查、对世纪中期收集的考古材料进行的最先进的实验室分析、区域考古遗址地理信息系统数据库以及对相关人种学和历史文献的系统审查。研究人员将与格拉顿兰切里亚的印第安人联邦合作，为部落学者和大学生提供考古方法的培训。调查人员将与部落和当地土地所有者密切合作，利用该项目的结果制定文化敏感的管理指南和公共解释材料。