Postdoctoral Fellowship: SPRF: Contested Spaces and Spectrums of Resistance

该奖项是NSF社会，行为和经济科学博士后研究奖学金（SPRF）计划的一部分。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界，工业或私营部门和政府的科学事业准备有前途的早期职业博士级科学家。SPRF的奖励包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励博士后研究员进行独立研究。NSF致力于促进来自科学界各部门的科学家，包括来自代表性不足的群体的科学家参与其研究计划和活动;博士后期间被认为是实现这一目标的专业发展的重要水平。每个博士后研究员必须解决推进各自学科领域的重要科学问题。在加州圣克鲁斯大学的Tsim Schneider博士的赞助下，该博士后奖学金支持一位早期职业科学家调查当地土著群体如何在内陆南加州边境地区航行。具体而言，本拟议项目旨在说明土著社区的复原力和周边使命卫星校园（称为asistencias或estancias）周围的抵抗光谱。在土著学者和其他人的工作之后，我们设想了一个以土著为中心的社区考古项目，以更好地了解asistencias/estancias的当地抵抗力，复原力和生存能力的光谱。拟议的考古研究寻求有效的地方参与，与部落社区合作伙伴在知识的共同生产咨询。因此，这项考古研究将坚持部落的目标和需求，并建立在民族志和档案研究。拟议的考古研究寻求有效的地方参与，通过与部落社区合作伙伴协商，共同生产的知识。该项目将分三个阶段进行。每个阶段将与部落社区合作伙伴合作实施，以优先考虑部落的目标和需求。第一阶段可能包括档案调查，以记录建立，相关的活动，以及土著/殖民地在asistencias的互动。根据美洲原住民社区合作伙伴的目标和第一阶段的结果，第二阶段将包括对加州雷德兰兹的Asistencia圣贝纳迪诺德塞纳进行最低限度的侵入性考古调查。这些调查涉及近地表和地表收集协议，如行人调查、金属探测器调查、探地雷达调查和捕获和释放研究，以确定和记录建筑特征、活动区域和其他相关空间。第三阶段将与美洲原住民组织协商，对圣贝纳迪诺县博物馆的现存藏品进行博物馆研究分析，以确定asistencia中是否存在与原住民有关的手工艺品。这一阶段还将利用地理信息系统（GIS）来分析其他阶段的数据和调查结果，重建圣贝纳迪诺德塞纳Asistencia的土著历史和复原力。该项目将与当地历史社区的部落组织和志愿者密切合作，记录牧场活动的证据，确定土著劳动力的营房/定居点，确定Asistencia及其周围地区可能与特定部落/群体相关的区域或特征，并记录土著生存和技术的证据。此外，一个地理信息系统将被用来重建景观和文件的多次尝试解决在山谷中的Asistencia说明如何土著空间仍然存在。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

This award was provided as part of the NSF Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Tsim Schneider at the University of California Santa Cruz, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating how local Indigenous groups navigated contested spaces in the inland Southern California borderlands. Specifically, this proposed project seeks to illustrate the resilience of Indigenous communities and spectrums of resistance around peripheral mission satellite campuses, known as asistencias or estancias. Following the work of Indigenous scholars and others, we envision an Indigenous-centered community archaeology project to better understand spectrums of local resistance, resilience and survivance at asistencias/estancias. The proposed archaeological study seeks effective local engagement by consulting with Tribal community partners in the coproduction of knowledge. Thus, this archaeological study will adhere to the goals and needs of Tribes and build from ethnographic and archival research.The proposed archaeological study seeks effective local engagement by consulting with Tribal community partners in coproduction of knowledge. This project will be conducted over three phases. Each phase will be implemented in collaboration with Tribal community partners to prioritize the goals and needs of Tribes. The first phase would potentially include archival investigations to document the establishment, activities associated within, and the Indigenous/colonial interactions at asistencias. Contingent on the goals of the Native American community partners and the results of Phase 1, the second phase would consist of minimally intrusive archaeological investigations of the Asistencia San Bernardino de Sena in Redlands, California. These investigations involve near-surface and surface collection protocols such as pedestrian survey, a metal detector survey, a ground penetrating radar survey, and a catch-and-release study to identify and document architectural features, activity areas, and other relevant spaces. In consultation with Native American organizations, the third phase will consist of museum study analysis of extant collections from the San Bernardino County Museum to determine the presence of artifacts associated with Native peoples at the asistencia. This phase will also utilize a geographic information system (GIS) to analyze data and findings from the other phases reconstructing Indigenous history and resilience at the San Bernardino de Sena Asistencia. This project would work closely with Tribal organizations and volunteers from local historical communities to record evidence of ranching activities, identify the barracks/settlements of Indigenous labor, ascertain areas or features of the Asistencia and surrounding locale that might be associated with specific tribes/groups, and document evidence of Indigenous subsistence and technology. In addition, a GIS will be utilized to reconstruct the landscape and document the multiple attempts at settlement in the valley in relation to the Asistencia illustrating how Indigenous spaces still remain.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.