Description: Archaeological research is uniquely positioned to show how native history and native culture affected the course of colonial interaction, but to do so it must transcend colonialist ideas about Native American technological and social change. This book applies that insight to five hundred years of native history. Using data from a wide variety of geographical, temporal, and cultural settings, the contributors examine economic, social, and political stability and transformation in indigenous societies before and after the advent of Europeans and document the diversity of native colonial experiences. The book's case studies range widely, from sixteenth-century Florida, to the Great Plains, to nineteenth-century coastal Alaska.
Review Quotes: "The authors of this volume support the goal of integrating indigenous history with other disciplines."--Journal of Anthropological Research
"This book shows that empirical archaeological research can help replace long-standing models of indigenous culture change rooted in colonialist narratives with more nuanced, multilinear models of change--and play a major role in decolonizing knowledge about native peoples."--National Museum of the American Indian Library, New and Notable "This edited volume is a valuable addition to the discourse on the archaeology of colonialism in North America, and will appeal to both seasoned academics and new readers of the topic."--Journal Canadien d'Archéologie