Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/21619441.2019.1690843
Leland G. Ferguson, Kelly Goldberg
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21619441.2019.1647662
D. Gray
ABSTRACT The Black Indian past of New Orleans has received considerable attention in recent years, thanks in part to the Mardi Gras Indians, parading groups known for their elaborate beaded suits, many of which also celebrate Native American heritage. Despite this vibrant living tradition, historians have sometimes been skeptical of the temporal depth or continuity of Black-Indian connections. Archaeological evidence from the colonial-era St. Peter Street Cemetery provides an opportunity to reconsider the ways that material traditions were used to reinforce the connections of the city’s Native and African-descended populations, even as the demographic presence of indigenous peoples was being subsumed by later arrivals.
{"title":"Memories of Black Indian Materialities in Colonial New Orleans","authors":"D. Gray","doi":"10.1080/21619441.2019.1647662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21619441.2019.1647662","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Black Indian past of New Orleans has received considerable attention in recent years, thanks in part to the Mardi Gras Indians, parading groups known for their elaborate beaded suits, many of which also celebrate Native American heritage. Despite this vibrant living tradition, historians have sometimes been skeptical of the temporal depth or continuity of Black-Indian connections. Archaeological evidence from the colonial-era St. Peter Street Cemetery provides an opportunity to reconsider the ways that material traditions were used to reinforce the connections of the city’s Native and African-descended populations, even as the demographic presence of indigenous peoples was being subsumed by later arrivals.","PeriodicalId":37778,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage","volume":"8 1","pages":"109 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21619441.2019.1647662","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45704230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21619441.2019.1646038
Christopher N. Matthews
ABSTRACT Research on the Silas Tobias site in Setauket, New York has identified a small nineteenth-century homestead with a well-preserved and stratified archaeological context. Documentation of the site establishes that the site was occupied from at least 1823 until about 1900. Based on documentary evidence, the Tobias family is considered African American, though the mixed Native American and African American heritage of the descendant community is also well-known. Excavations in 2015 exposed both architectural- and midden-associated deposits that shed light on daily life of the Tobias household, which suggests the preservation of Native American cultural practices both in technology and foodways. In essence, the site presents excellent evidence of the mixing of cultural traditions, a process interpreted in this paper as a sign of both political agency of the Tobias family as well as a period of greater tolerance for racial difference associated with the end of slavery in New York.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21619441.2019.1644826
Victoria A Cacchione
ABSTRACT As an African American-Native American family living on Nantucket in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the household of Seneca Boston and Thankful Micah faced many challenges of race, class, and gender. A minimal number of vessels analysis of their ceramic assemblage illustrates how the Boston-Micah family adopted both a public and private persona in order to successfully navigate their diverse identities in a predominantly White society. The presence of European manufactured ceramics, two inkbottles, and a tin-glazed punch bowl hint at the family’s literacy and awareness of Euro-American genteel practices. However, several sherds of earthenware ceramics combining European production techniques with Native decorative traditions reinforce the family’s Native American background. The presence of these ceramic vessels suggests the existence of both a private and public identity that today can only be recognized in the Boston-Micah family’s consumption practices.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21619441.2019.1644825
U. Baram
ABSTRACT This article provides discussion and commentary on the theoretical and methodological contributions provided by the studies included in this thematic collection of articles entitled “Refuge and Support: Historical Archaeologies of Multiracial Native American and African American Sites and Communities.” I also address related issues in my research on Angola, a historic maroon community in Florida. The history of Angola and the surrounding region included individuals of Seminole and African American heritage and the creation of a maroon community of refuge from European American slavery and racism.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21619441.2019.1644827
R. Handsman
ABSTRACT The long, ongoing history of communities of color in southern New England is inextricably interwoven with the evolution of an Atlantic economy. This article examines that relationship by focusing on work and opportunity, achievement and prosperity, and community survival in the antebellum period. My entry points are Isaac Rose of the historic Gayhead Indian community, Paul Cuffe, Sr. of Westport, and Frederick Douglass during his sojourn in New Bedford—men of color who became prosperous or lived among those who were, men of color whose accomplishments challenged racial prejudices and helped sustain their communities. Future historic archaeological studies can recover evidences of their practices of prosperity, and deepen our understandings of how those practices shaped and enriched cultures of opposition. Archaeologies of prosperity can provide a critical pathway for documenting what happened as others built and extended their freedoms in an earlier America, freedoms which were then denied them again.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21619441.2019.1650475
A. Mcgovern, Anjana Mebane‐Cruz
ABSTRACT The recent recognition of a twentieth-century Montaukett home in what has been considered a “Black neighborhood” brings into question the historical construction of race categories and boundaries, as well as the construction and production of history, giving us new perspectives on the histories of Long Island. Along with memories and other input from descendants and other community members, the authors use the methodologies of archaeology and cultural anthropology to understand relationships of kin, kind, and power in the Freetown neighborhood. In so doing, they interrogate and deconstruct the colonialist interpretations of the people and the way they lived their day to day lives. In this article, the authors unpack racialized histories as a method for framing their Mapping Memories of Freetown project, and shed light on the discursive relationship between constructed histories and lived experiences.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21619441.2019.1644829
Bradley D. Phillippi, Eiryn Sheades
ABSTRACT The variants of community-based research projects in archaeology have increased exponentially in number since the 1980s, and the once-well-defined lines dividing “academic” and “public” archaeology continue to fade. We welcome the protracted and necessary change, but community-based research lacks the rigidity of previous paradigmatic approaches in archaeological research. For good reason. Here we provide a commentary based on our collaborative projects with two communities of mixed-descent on Long Island to emphasize how action research defies well-defined approaches. If anything, our experiences showcase some of the challenges community archaeologies encounter yet are reluctant to acknowledge. We focus on race and heritage, their intersection, and the dynamic experiences they impose and create. We offer very little in the way of solutions to the challenges we present, but hope to illustrate how self-reflection and flexibility are requisites of effective collaborative research, particularly with communities of mixed-ancestry.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21619441.2019.1644828
Christopher N. Matthews
ABSTRACT This thematic collection of articles broadens archaeological understandings of race by moving beyond the identification of evidence of a Black, Native, or hybrid, multiracial identities. Through explorations of the nature of archaeological sites and material culture associated with multiracial spaces, articles in this collection describe the ways material culture was used to express multiple identities. These studies also seek to document the diverse spatial and material practices that helped Black, Native, and multiracial persons negotiate the often conflicting social, political, and economic aspirations. This introduction article provides an overview of these theoretical and methodological challenges, and introduces the articles in this collection.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21619441.2019.1644830
Terrance M. Weik
ABSTRACT The archaeological study of the Levi Colbert Prairie site is exploring the convergence of gender, labor, racialization, agriculture, slavery, and human-animal interactions in ways that illuminate identity making, cultural categorization and community building in nineteenth-century Chickasaw territory. A variety of experiences, tasks, and social practices transformed the landscapes and relations of African diasporans, Native Americans, and horses, in what became the State of Mississippi. Artifacts and animals encountered on the frontiers of settler societies need to be rethought with a broader notion of materiality and alternative agencies in mind to better understand captivity, the cultural contexts of work, and the reach of oppression.
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