Doctoral Dissertation Research: Uncovering Native-Lived Colonialism in Old Harbor, Alaska

博士论文研究：揭示阿拉斯加旧港的原住民殖民主义

• 批准号: 2051935
• 负责人: Ben Fitzhugh
• 金额: $ 5.53万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-03-01 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2051935&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Uncovering; Native

This dissertation research examines how the Indigenous Sugpiaq (i.e., Alutiiq) people of the Kodiak archipelago, Alaska, experienced contact with Russian colonists and fur traders from the 1780s to 1860s. Colonialism brought unprecedented challenges to Sugpiaq communities, including violence, epidemic disease, forced labor, resettlement and religious conversion. This project brings together data from archaeological excavation and analysis of two colonial-period Sugpiaq village sites with oral history and archival records to produce a fuller picture of Sugpiaq life during the Russian colonial period. The project involves collaboration with the modern Sugpiaq community in Old Harbor to co-produce knowledge about the past, providing archaeological field and laboratory training for graduate students and Old Harbor youth through an internship program, an archaeology camp, and curriculum development with the Old Harbor school. These initiatives will increase the participation of Alaska Native students in archaeology and enhance the Old Harbor community’s capacity to document and care for their cultural heritage. The work will advance archaeological knowledge of Alaska Native lives during the colonial period and explore the potential of community-based practices in anthropological research.This project employs archival, archaeological, and ethnographic methods to reconstruct nineteenth-century Sugpiaq lifeways. Archival research focuses on Russian American Company documents, which provide data on trade and demography. Limited excavation at two sites—Ing’yug and Nuniaq—will focus on middens and houses, building upon previous research by the PI team. Site components will be dated using historic beads and ceramics; artifacts, flora, and fauna will be analyzed to reconstruct household activities and social organization. Finally, semi-structured ethnographic interviews with Old Harbor Elders will provide information on long-term use of the landscape, including subsistence practices.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

本论文研究探讨了土著Sugpiaq（即，18世纪80年代至19世纪60年代，阿拉斯加科迪亚克群岛的居民与俄罗斯殖民者和毛皮商人有过接触。殖民主义给苏格皮亚克社区带来了前所未有的挑战，包括暴力、流行病、强迫劳动、重新安置和宗教皈依。该项目汇集了考古发掘的数据和对两个殖民时期Sugpiaq村庄遗址的分析，以及口述历史和档案记录，以更全面地了解俄罗斯殖民时期的Sugpiaq生活。该项目涉及与旧港的现代Sugpiaq社区合作，共同制作有关过去的知识，通过实习计划，考古营和课程开发为研究生和旧港青年提供考古领域和实验室培训。这些举措将增加阿拉斯加土著学生在考古学的参与，并提高老港社区的能力，以记录和照顾他们的文化遗产。这项工作将推进阿拉斯加原住民生活在殖民时期的考古知识，并探讨在人类学研究的社区为基础的做法的潜力。该项目采用档案，考古和民族志的方法来重建十九世纪的苏格皮亚克生活方式。档案研究的重点是俄美公司文件，提供贸易和人口统计数据。在Ing 'yug和Nuniaq两个地点进行的有限挖掘将集中在贝冢和房屋上，以PI团队先前的研究为基础。将使用具有历史意义的珠子和陶瓷来确定遗址组成部分的年代;将分析人工制品、植物群和动物群，以重建家庭活动和社会组织。最后，半结构化的民族志采访旧港长老将提供长期使用的景观，包括生存的做法，这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。