Native Americans, archaeologists & the mounds
Annotation "Ever since eighteenth-century European settlers stumbled upon the mounds, explanations and interpretations of them - often ridiculous and seldom Native American - have appeared as sober scholarship. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) has intensified the debate over who "owns" the mounds - modern descendants of the mound builders or Western archaeologists. Native Americans, Archaeologists, and the Mounds is the first cogent look at all the issues surrounding the mounds, their history, their preservation, and their interpretation. Using the traditions of those Natives descended from the mound builders as well as historical and archaeological evidence, Barbara Alice Mann places the mounds in their Native cultural context as she examines the fraught issues enveloping them in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
American Indian studies, v. 14
1 online resource (xxvi, 520 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780820455266, 0820455261
607733319
Foreword: indigenist scholarship at its finest / by Ward Churchill
Introduction: on riding that undead horse of native discourse
The "vulture culture": anthropology collects Native America
The "slaughter" of the mounds: settler myths and despoliations
"We can make a Waukauhoowaa": native traditions of the mounds
Kokomthena, singing in the flames: sky-earth logic in the mounds
Blabbermouth bones: NAGPRA, remythologized archaeology and documentary genocide
Epilogue: strategies for Eastern Native Americans
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010