Pub Date : 2022-05-11DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2022.2060028
Joe Alan Artz (retired)
Like the authors in this edited collection, I am from the Great Plains, and I too think and write about home with mixed emotion. The challenge in writing about an actual flyover zone is convincing readers that there really is a reason to physically or intellectually visit the area. Most people, academics included, do not ever think of Saskatchewan, the Dakotas, or Kansas. When they do, it is usually not with much curiosity or enthusiasm. The editors and authors of the book tackle this challenge by centering the work on connections and relationships—between people and their environment—inside the Great Plains and outside via pipelines, wind, and food systems. In this way, the book is not a turn inward to reflect on the Great Plains but an attempt to broaden our understanding and encourage us to reimagine a Greater Plains, a place unmoored from national, ecological, social, and cultural boundaries.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2022.2066917
M. Kornfeld, J. Adovasio, M. Larson, J. Finley
We thank Linea Sundstrom for allowing us to clarify our article on perishable items from the Northwestern Plains and review a wealth of additional literature bearing on the subject. Our reply focuses on three issues raised by the comments: (1) the geographic space considered by our article; (2) the cultural space and modern political boundaries addressed by the article; (3) the temporal and cultural affinities of Last Canyon sandal. Sundstrom asserts that our article is “predicated on fuzzy geographic and temporal boundaries,” noting that Wyoming is not the High Plains, Wyoming and Montana are not the Northwestern Plains, and Ludlow Cave is not in either Montana or Wyoming. We actually never mention Ludlow Cave in the article, and we do not say it is in Montana or Wyoming. In one sentence we refer to Wyoming and Montana localities with perishable artifacts and in the citations to document this statement we include Sundstrom’s (1996) article on Ludlow Cave. We can see how the sentence can be construed to imply that Ludlow Cave is in Montana or Wyoming. However, Ludlow Cave is only 35 km east of the Montana border, an area commonly considered the Northwestern Plains (Wedel 1961). Why Sundstrom mentions that Wyoming is not the High Plains, is a puzzle to us. There is not one mention of High Plains in our article. The only mention of High Plains is in titles of several references; this critique appears plains anthropologist, Vol. 67 No. 262, May 2022, 197–203
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2022.2067726
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2022.2059745
Linea Sundstrom
Through a framework of ecological zones, rather than state boundaries, the cordage and juniper bark item from Last Canyon Cave provide an example of the long-standing pattern of Great Basin cultural developments extending into the adjacent mountainous areas. Kornfeld and others (2021) present a significant find: a possible plaited mat or sandal fragment from Last Canyon Cave in southern Montana. While new reports of perishable artifacts are always of interest to Plains Anthropologist readers, the article is predicated on fuzzy geographic and temporal concepts. To begin, Ludlow Cave is not in Wyoming or Montana (Kornfeld et al. 2021:384); it is in northwestern South Dakota. While seemingly trivial, this mistake raises larger concerns about imposing the political boundaries of settler-colonists onto Native American cultural territories. In short, Wyoming is not the “High Plains,” and Wyoming and Montana are not equivalent to the “Northwestern Plains.” Should western Wyoming and the adjacent portion of Montana where Last Canyon Cave lies, be included in a “Northwestern Plains” region? Although many archaeologists have persisted in this practice, physical geographers and ecologists place western Wyoming and the Last Canyon Cave area not in the Great Plains province but in the North American Deserts region, more commonly called the Great Basin (Commission for Environmental Cooperation 2006). While it would be simplistic to define cultural areas solely on environmental zones, it seems even more facile to imagine that Native American culture areas coincide with the modern political boundaries of settler-colonist entities, such as US states and Canadian provinces. “Wyoming and Montana” are not coterminous with the Northwestern Plains ecoregion, but include portions of the Northwestern Plains, North American Deserts, andMiddle Rockies zones. Conversely, the Northwestern Plains ecoregion includes most of North and South Dakota, the eastern plains anthropologist, Vol. 67 No. 262, May 2022, 194–196
Last Canyon Cave的绳索和杜松子皮制品通过生态区而非州边界的框架，为大盆地文化发展延伸到邻近山区的长期模式提供了一个例子。Kornfeld和其他人（2021）提出了一个重要的发现：一个可能来自蒙大拿州南部最后峡谷洞穴的编织垫子或凉鞋碎片。虽然平原人类学的读者总是对易腐文物的新报道感兴趣，但这篇文章是基于模糊的地理和时间概念。首先，勒德洛洞穴不在怀俄明州或蒙大拿州（Kornfeld等人，2021:384）；它位于南达科他州西北部。虽然这一错误看似微不足道，但它引发了人们对将定居者殖民者的政治边界强加给美洲原住民文化领地的更大担忧。简言之，怀俄明州不是“高平原”，怀俄州和蒙大拿州也不等同于“西北平原”。怀俄明州西部和最后峡谷洞穴所在的蒙大拿州邻近地区是否应该被纳入“西北平原地区”？尽管许多考古学家坚持这种做法，但物理地理学家和生态学家将怀俄明州西部和最后一个峡谷洞穴地区不是在大平原省，而是在北美沙漠地区，通常被称为大盆地（环境合作委员会，2006年）。虽然仅仅根据环境区来定义文化区是简单的，但想象美国原住民文化区与美国各州和加拿大各省等定居者殖民主义实体的现代政治边界重合似乎更容易。“怀俄明州和蒙大拿州”与西北平原生态区并不相邻，但包括西北平原、北美沙漠和中落基山脉的部分地区。相反，西北平原生态区包括北达科他州和南达科他州的大部分地区，东部平原人类学家，第67卷第262期，2022年5月，194-196
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2022.2067394
Thomas Thiessen
Plains archaeology lost one of its most devoted and accomplished practitioners with the passing of W. Raymond Wood (Figure 1) on October 2, 2020. Ray made many significant contributions to several academic disciplines and received many honors during his long career as an anthropologist. Most notable of these were his achievements in archaeology, the primary focus of his anthropological interests, but he was also responsible for many interdisciplinary contributions to other fields of academic endeavor, including general anthropology, ethnohistorical research, history, historical cartography, and Quaternary studies. Ray Wood’s life and professional career may be glimpsed through two retrospective articles he published in 1994 and 2006 (the former co-authored with J.J. Hoffman) and, most comprehensively, his 2011 autobiography. A White-Bearded Plainsman: The Memoirs of Archaeologist W. Raymond Wood, is a fascinating story of his life and professional career. It is an absorbing read that illuminates Ray’s complex personal and professional history, with many insights and much humor. Throughout his long career, Ray performed service work to advance archaeology, historic preservation, and interdisciplinary research. Among other professional activities, he served as book review editor (1969–1971), journal editor (1972–1974), and memoir editor (1974–1977) for the Plains Anthropologist; co-chair of the 45th Plains Anthropological Conference; editor of American Antiquity (1987–1990); editor of The Missouri Archaeologist (1990–2016); two terms on the Missouri State Advisory Council for Historic Preservation (1973–1977, 1995–1998); and in many other advisory, consultant, and editorial capacities for various organizations and professional publications. His academic achievements earned him many honors, including an Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Nebraska (1988); the second Plains Anthropological Society Distinguished Service Award (1992); the American Quaternary Association’s Distinguished Service Award (2007); and the Society for American Archaeology’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2011), among others. His co-authorship of Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited earned him a Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and a High Plains Book Award for Art and Photography from the Billings Public Library, both in 2014. In addition to formal honors, Ray received many tributes and reflections on his career from colleagues and former students during his life and since his passing, including tribute issues of the Plains Anthropologist (no. 210, 2009); the Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly (vol. 38, no. 1, 2021); We Proceeded On (vol. 47, no. 1, 2021); the SAA Archaeological Record (vol. 21, no. 2, 2021); and Quaternary Times (vol. 42, no. 2, 2020), the newsletter of the American Quaternary Association.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2022.2060685
T. Beaulieu
Avenues of travel employed by past people have often become obscured by both natural and human processes. Relocating them with traditional archaeological field methods is thus difficult, and other approaches, such as relying on historic documents or uncritically employing GIS analyses have often been found to be problematic due to their colonizing impacts. That does not mean, however, that all archaeological approaches need to be cast aside. A decolonizing lens can be applied to existing methods to reveal a past that privileges Indigenous perspectives. By incorporating the concept of relational affordances, and identifying past significant places, this paper takes just such an approach when using GIS to reconstruct past avenues of travel along the Red Deer River in southern Alberta. By critically examining archaeological data and historic documents with a decolonizing perspective, significant places to past people are discovered, and a long-forgotten river crossing is relocated.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2022.2066941
M. Jordan, Timothy P. McCleary, Linea Sundstrom
Depictions of two riders mounted on a single horse appear in Plains Biographic rock art at five sites. Comparison of these images with late nineteenth century Plains Indian drawings on hide and paper indicates that the pictographs and petroglyphs commemorate instances in which mounted warriors rescued comrades who had been unhorsed in battle. Ethnographic material confirms that several Plains Indian societies held this deed in high esteem. These societies employed formal mechanisms for recognizing individuals who had rescued comrades. While the importance of martial themes in Plains Biographic rock art has been widely acknowledged, emphasis has been placed on the acts of counting coup, capturing weapons, and taking horses. The identification of depictions of two warriors on a single horse as rescue scenes adds to our understanding of the diversity of martial exploits recognized by Plains Indian societies.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2022.2058904
Brandi Bethke
This article presents an analysis of the bison assemblage recovered from excavations at the Boarding School site (24GL302), located in Glacier County, Montana. Excavations at the site took place following the inadvertent discovery of a large bone bed uncovered during foundation construction for a new school by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The assemblage represents contexts associated with both the adjacent Late Precontact period bison kill site first excavated by Thomas Kehoe in the 1950s and the later occupation of the site during its use as a boarding school for Blackfoot children in the first half of the twentieth century. Through these remains, this work provides new insight into this continually used landscape.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-22DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2022.2036576
C. Bousman, R. Curran, P. Dering, Michael L. Mudd, J. Feathers, Abby Payton, Holly A. Meier, Christopher R. Lintz
Twenty-one AMS radiocarbon and optical stimulated luminescence assays from Early Ceramic (Plains Woodland) and Middle Ceramic (Antelope Creek) periods are reported from sites on the Cross Bar Ranch in Potter County, Texas including the first direct date on Phaseolus sp. remains in the Southern Plains. Calibrated radiocarbon dates and a single luminescence assay are used to evaluate site occupation spans during the Middle Ceramic Antelope Creek phase (ca. AD 1150–1450). A method for determining occupation sequences between sites using combined probabilities is presented for Antelope Creek occupations on the Cross Bar Ranch and the entire period of occupation at the Cross Bar Ranch is compared to other direct dates on cultigens from the greater Antelope Creek phase in the Southern Plains of Texas.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-15DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2022.2031501
Todd A. Surovell
included. Linguistically, these three accounts are a treasure and, as Wolfart has noted in his introduction, “... these three versions of ‘the same text,’ told on three different occasions and to distinct audiences over a period of almost three years... , yield a tantalizing case study of the structures and processes of oral transmission.” While each is complete in itself, each also adds new elements. The story relates to a young woman who disappears and, despite extensive searching, cannot be found. Eventually, she is seen up on Manitow ka-̄matweh̄iket̄ and it is learned that she had been abducted by the spirits, entering the hill through a doorway which was a large white rock. Here, she was kept for four days while the spirits debated whether to kill her. One of the spirits was in the form of a lion – Mistahkes̄iwak. (This is likely equivalent to the malevolent spirit that is known to northern Crees as Misipisiw, the underwater panther.) On the fourth night the woman was made to promise to give the spirits her first husband (the alternative was her first born child) and she was released. Sarah recalled that her step-grandmother had named this woman as Picwek̄an and had known her daughter. This volume, edited and translated by Wolfart and Ahenakew, is the most recent of several important publications of their Cree texts. Not only is the transcription painstaking, the translation is clearly subtle and nuanced. This is a remarkable contribution to the body of Plains Cree texts.
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