Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2020.1864713
D. Gradwohl
This attractive and informative tome deals with a farmstead occupied during the early 1300s AD along the Missouri River Valley in the Glenwood locality of southwest Iowa. The editors and principal ...
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2021.1875315
M. Turney, L. Bendiak, J. Brink
Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park and the surrounding region is home to one of the largest collections of rock art on the Great Plains. The painted and carved rock art images have been classified as overwhelmingly belonging to the established Plains Biographic and Plains Ceremonial traditions. Images associated with two lesser known Plains traditions, Vertical Series and Foothills Abstract, have not been previously reported anywhere within the greater Writing-on-Stone region. This paper reports on the discovery of several unambiguous instances of Vertical Series and Foothills Abstract rock art at a site located in the heart of the Writing-on-Stone rock art complex. These panels are illustrated and described, possible age and affiliation are discussed, and the placement of this discovery within the Vertical Series and Foothills Abstract traditions is addressed. It is argued that more instances of these poorly known rock art traditions exist within the Writing-on-Stone region but have previously defied recognition.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2021.1878003
D. Bamforth
Plains archaeologists have referred to a class of features they have labelled mortar holes at least since the 1940s. These features are typically postholes identified in locations in the floors of houses that seem unlikely to have supported the weight of the house’s roof. Instead, researchers suggest that these holes once held wooden mortars used to process maize and other materials. These references are uneven: essentially identical features are labelled pocket caches or simply marked as posts in many cases. This paper discusses archaeological features likely to have held mortars in light of the use of wooden mortars in recent times on the Plains, outlines patterns in the distribution of possible mortar holes on the Central Plains and Middle Missouri, and sketches some of the important topics they may help us to study. These include the possibility that they can help to identify broad differences in the general kinds of maize grown in different areas and that they document variation in the gendered use of space within the house in different parts of the Plains.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2020.1824262
G. Stuart
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2020.1819180
Cassidee A. Thornhill
The reintroduction of Equus caballus (horse) into North America during European-American contact altered Native American life on the Plains. The horse influenced a variety of cultural practices, including transportation and warfare. Despite the impact of the horse on Native Plains cultures, there is a paucity of horse remains in the archaeological record in Wyoming and the Great Plains in general. In this article, the results of a reanalysis of a set of horse remains from the Protohistoric Period are described. The horse remains from the Blacks Fork River site in Wyoming provides a unique opportunity to examine a preserved interaction between humans and a horse from the early contact period. Reanalysis includes a re-examining of the faunal elements to re-establish the horse's age and evidence of butchering and radiocarbon dating to confirm the temporal span of the remains.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2020.1858396
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Pub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2020.1841071
J. Keyser
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Pub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2020.1851852
Alison M. Hadley
When Dream Bear Sings edited by Gus Palmer, Jr. is an ambitious volume that brings together the tribal stories, myths, folktales, and personal sketches and poems from multiple scholars and artists. The volume is organized by seven language families and a language isolate. Within these sections are individual works for each language family: one in Athabaskan, one in Kiowa-Tanoan, one in a language isolate (Tonkawa), two in Uto-Aztecan, four in Iroquoian, seven in Caddoan, nine in Siouan, and eleven in Algonquian. Some of the works have been previously published and are newly translated, and some stories are published for the first time. The introduction to the text comments on the cultural landscape of the Southern Great Plains, discussing the people that lived there before and after removal efforts. This edited volume includes works from both of these groups. The introduction also notes the importance of language survival and the noble efforts presented here to retain the original orthography. Much of the introduction discusses the controversies of translations, including the way that stories change when they are transcribed into another language. Additionally, oral narratives are indelibly changedwhen they are written in any language. Cultural context is also important when reading and interpreting the stories included in the book. Palmer notes that native knowledge has increased over the years with Pan-Indianmovements and language preservation programs. An ever-present challenge is accurately translating a work into another language and attempting to convey its meaning by getting to the “heart of things”. The Algonquian language family contains six different groups, Cheyenne with six stories and the other five (Absentee Shawnee, Kickapoo, Lenape, Miami, and Potawatomi) each with a single story. The Cheyenne section of the text begins with a Gordon Yellowman’s explanation of storytelling traditions and the appropriate time of day and season for each type of tale. “The Bear and the Coyote” is documented in Cheyenne and then translated into English by Joyce Twins. The other four stories were told by Birdie Burns of the Cheyenne tribe and discuss ancient lifeways of the Cheyenne. The Absentee Shawnee chapter written by the editor includes a brief background on the language and a pronunciation guide. The short poems in this section were written by Pauline Wahpepah, a native speaker and teacher, and are entitled Eagle, Bear, Sun, and Flower. The selection for the Kickapoo language byMosiah Bluecloud is from a story discovered in the basement of the Kickapoo Secondary Administration Building in McCloud, Oklahoma. The tale is about motorcyclists harassing an Indian man at a diner and the man gets his revenge. The Lenape section contains background on the language as well as a map on the tribe’s removal. The story about the origin of the woman dance is recorded in Lenape and English. An interesting addition in this chapter is a link that directs readers
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