They Told Us So - Ep 190

We’ve had plenty of instances on the show (in the main feed and especially in Old News) of archaeological research bearing out information that existed already in the historical and oral traditions of Indigenous groups. We’ll discuss some examples of this, and we’ll also examine the relationship of Indigenous science and knowledge with the Western systems that actively invalidate and exclude them.

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Links

• When Scientists “Discover” What Indigenous People Have Known For Centuries (Smithsonian)

• Folklore and earthquakes: Native American oral traditions from Cascadia compared with written traditions from Japan (Geological Society London Special Publications, via ResearchGate)

• Lost Apes Of The Congo (Time)

• Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia (Journal of Ethnobiology)

• Why These Birds Carry Flames In Their Beaks (National Geographic)

• The Birds That Start Fires: Using Indigenous Ecological Knowledge to Understand Animal Behavior (PLoS)

• Tribal History (Crater Lake Trust)

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (via WorldCat)

• Zoe Todd thread on Braiding Sweetgrass (Twitter)

• Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science (via WorldCat)

• Indigenous Fire Practices Shape our Land (National Parks Service)

• Knowledge of medicinal plants at risk as languages die out (The Guardian)

• Cultivating Connection: Restoring Clam Gardens (Biohabitats)

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• Fresh Banana Leaves with Dr. Jessica Hernandez (YouTube)

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Studying Salvage Anthropology w/ Samuel Redman - Ep 176

We dive into Dr. Samuel Redman’s latest book, Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Amber and Anna (mostly Amber) have lots of questions about the seemingly paradoxical 19th- and 20th- century urge by American scholars to “rescue” objects and even human remains from “disappearing” Indigenous groups. It’s a fascinating window into anthropology viewed as a moral and academic obligation, and the social underpinnings of the development of the discipline in the US. And! You can enter to win your very own copy of Ghosts and Prophets! Harvard University Press generously hooked us up with three copies to give away. The promotion is running via Twitter and Instagram, so keep an eye out for those posts for the extremely low-effort rules for entering.

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Links

• Prophets and Ghosts (via WorldCat)

• Samuel J. Redman (UMass Amherst)

• Wendy Red Star’s 1880 Crow Peace Delegation (Birmingham Museum of Art)

• Wendy Red Star’s Children of the Large-Beaked Bird (MASS MoCA)

• Blanket Stories: Transportation Object, Generous Ones, Trek (Marie Watt Studio)

• Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Smithsonian Institution)

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Eat Locally: The Archaeology of Indigenous American Food - Ep 80

This week, Anna and Amber take a look at foodways in the archaeological record of North America. What does archaeological evidence say about what was cooked, who was cooking, and what vessels were used to prepare and store food? What evidence is there for recreating ancient and pre-contact diets? How does this fit in with contemporary food sovereignty movements among Indigenous people? How great are potatoes? All this and more!

Links

• Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation (Journal of Archaeological Research)

• Reconstructing sexual divisions of labor from fingerprints on Ancestral Puebloan pottery (PNAS)

• Traditional Foods in Native America (CDC)

• Countryman: Foraging California's Wild Side

• What is mak-’amham? (Cafe Ohlone)

• Investigating the function of prehistoric stone bowls and griddle stones in the Aleutian Islands by lipid residue analysis (Quaternary Research)

• One of the Oldest Spuds In the World Is Poised For a Comeback (Heated by Medium)

• North American Indian Recipes – Acorn Recipes & Facts! (The People’s Paths)

• Native American Food (Arkansas Archaeological Survey)

• The Mitsitam Cafe Cookbook: Recipes from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (via WorldCat)

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