Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Local Response to International Change

这项考古研究探讨了土著个人和社区在改变殖民关系的背景下，在世纪初在加州的决定和战略。考古学是很好的定位，以评估这个问题，因为它强调的空间，时间和对象允许重建过去的社会代理人如何导航显着变化的殖民战略随着时间的推移。考虑到使命期间发生的大规模社会和经济变化，这一点尤其重要。虽然使命系统的最初目标是将当地人民转变为忠诚的西班牙臣民，但新的政策有助于将使命劳工从方济各会的统治中解放出来。因此，对早期和晚期使命背景下存放的材料进行评估，不仅可以为殖民主义的运作提供新的见解，而且还可以用来确定土著群体在这些不同时期所采用的政治战略和日常做法。这些数据可以用来与整个加州，甚至整个地球仪的其他地区进行比较，以了解殖民政策对土著居民的不同影响，以及当地群体使用自己的意义和价值体系驾驭殖民主义的方式。这项研究将与丘马什印第安人的圣伊内斯乐队和加州州立公园一起进行。鉴于这一更广泛的背景，本项目进行研究，研究一个土著社区在使命环境中的社会组织，并评估他们如何应对西班牙边境在使命空间内的撤退。在使命拉普里西马康塞普西翁土著经验的研究提供了一个理想的透镜，通过它来调查这些问题，因为两个不同的地层/年代组已被确定。通过探索这两种不同背景下的劳动实践、饮食方式、手工业以及贸易和交流，本项目揭示了使命中的丘马什社区如何随着时间的推移驾驭新的殖民政策和关系。这些结果被用来了解不断演变的土著社会身份在社区层面和区域规模鉴于海洋变化发生在阿尔塔加州在殖民主义下的更广泛的历史背景。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。

This archaeological research examines the decisions and strategies employed by Native individuals and communities in the context of changing colonial relations during the early 19th century in California. Archaeology is well positioned to evaluate this issue because its emphasis on space, time, and objects allows for the reconstruction of how past social agents navigated significant shifts in colonial strategies over time. This is particularly important considering the broadscale social and economic shifts that occurred during the Mission period. While the initial goal of the mission system was to convert local peoples into loyal Spanish subjects, new policies helped free mission laborers from Franciscan rule. The assessment of materials deposited within earlier and later Mission contexts can thus not only provide new insights into the operation of colonialism but can also be used to ascertain the political strategies and daily practices employed by Native groups during these distinct periods in time. These data can be used as a comparative to other regions throughout California, and even across the globe, to understand the differing impacts of colonial policies on indigenous populations and the way that local groups navigated colonialism using their own system of meanings and values. The research will be conducted with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians and California State Parks. Given this broader context, this project undertakes research to study the social organization of one Native community within a mission setting and evaluate how they responded to the retreat of the Spanish frontier inside the mission space. The study of indigenous experiences at Mission La Purísima Concepcíon offers an ideal lens through which to investigate these issues because two distinct stratigraphic/ chronological groups have been previously identified. By exploring labor practices, foodways, craft industries, and trade and exchange from these two distinct contexts, this project sheds light on how the Chumash community at the Mission navigated new colonial policies and relations over time. These results are used to understand evolving indigenous social identities at the community level and regional scale given the broader historical background of sea change happening in Alta California under colonialism.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.