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ANTH 377: Archaeologies of Turtle Island is a senior-level anthropology course that explores the archaeological pasts of Turtle Island—a.k.a. North America—and their impacts on communities and nations today. The student will cover topics ranging from the First Peoples on the continent to the arrival of European populations up to today. 

Unit 1: Welcome to Turtle Island

Section 1.1: Turtle Island Archaeologies
Atalay, Sonya. 2006. “Indigenous Archaeology as Decolonizing Practice.” American Indian Quarterly 30 (3/4): 280–310. 
Steeves, Paulette. 2020. “Re-Claiming and Re-Writing the Past through Indigenous Voices and Worldviews.” Revista de Arqueología Americana no. 38, 87–95.
Onondaga Historical Association. 2016, April 28. The Creation Story: Sky Woman. YouTube, 3:32.
German, Tracy, writer. 2019. Wild Archaeology. Season 1, episode 1, “Wild People.” Directed by Ian Thompson.
Section 1.2: Whose Past? Narrators and Stewards
Atalay, Sonya, Jen Shannon, and John G. Swogger. 2017. “Journeys to Complete the Work.” NAGPRA Comics 1. 
Gupta, Neha, Sue Blair, and Ramona Nicholas. 2020. “What We See, What We Don’t See: Data Governance, Archaeological Spatial Databases and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in an Age of Big Data.” Journal of Field Archaeology 45 (sup1): S39–S50. 
Supernant, Kisha. 2020. “Grand Challenge No. 1: Truth and Reconciliation Archaeological Pedagogy, Indigenous Histories, and Reconciliation in Canada.” Journal of Archaeology and Education no. 4, 1–22. 
Gover, Carlton. 2020, August 4. “Who Was the ‘Ancient One’? The Strange Story of Kennewick Man.” Evolution Soup. 

Unit 2: Time Immemorial

Section 2.1: Eurasian Origins and Critiques
Steeves, Paulette. 2017. “Unpacking Neoliberal Archaeological Control of Ancient Indigenous Heritage.” Archaeologies 13 (1): 48–65. 
First Peoples: Americas. 2015. PBS. 
Pringle, Heather. 2017, March 7. “From Vilified to Vindicated: The Story of Jacques Cinq-Mars.” Hakai Magazine. 
Section 2.2: Migration Routes and Lifeways
Echo-Hawk, Roger C. 2000. “Ancient History in the New World: Integrating Oral Traditions and the Archaeological Record in Deep Time.” American Antiquity 65 (2): 267–290.
Campbell, Daniel. 2015. “The Hero of the Dene.” Up Here: The Voice of Canada’s Far North (March/April).
“The Solutrean Hypothesis.” 2016, February 29. ArchyFantasies, episode 31, produced by Chris Webster and Tristan Boyle.
Section 2.3: A Warming Postglacial World
Lanoë, François B., M. Nieves Zedeño, Anna M. Jansson, Vance T. Holliday, and Joshua D. Reuther. 2021. “Glacial Kettles as Archives of Early Human Settlement Along the Northern Rocky Mountain Front.” Quaternary Research, 1–16. doi:10.1017/qua.2021.40
Kristensen, Todd. 2021, March 3. “Fingerprints in Glass: Obsidian and Ancient Human Relationships.” RETROactive: Exploring Alberta’s Past (blog).
Town of Okotoks. 2021, August 25. The Legend of Big Rock, Okotoks Museum & Archives. YouTube, 5:03.
Koski, Shawna. 2015. Okatok. Vimeo, 4:52. 

Unit 3: The Turtle’s Front

Section 3.1: Arctic Peoples and Climate Change
Desjardins, Sean P. A., T. Max Friesen, and Peter D. Jordan. 2020. “Looking Back While Moving Forward: How Past Responses to Climate Change Can Inform Future Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies in the Arctic.” Quaternary International no. 549, 239–248.
Williams, A. R. 2017. “Racing the Thaw: Warmer Temperatures in Alaska Are Revealing Native Ancestral Artifacts That Have Been Frozen in Time.” National Geographic 231, no. 4: 134–153.
German, Tracy, writer. 2019. Wild Archaeology. Season 1, episode 4, “Inuvialuit.” Directed by Ian Thompson. 
German, Tracy, writer. 2019. Wild Archaeology. Season 1, episode 5, “Arctic in Peril.” Directed by Ian Thompson. 
Section 3.2: Northeastern Forest Dwellers and Rock Artists
Tapper, Bryn. 2020. “Exploring Relationality: Perspectives on the Research Narratives of the Rock Art of the Algonquian-Speaking Peoples of Central and Eastern Canada.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 27 (3): 723–744. 
Musée de la civilisation. 2021. Images on Stone: A Virtual Exhibition on Rock Art in Canada.
Section 3.3: Northwest Coast Farmers and Their Dogs
Lyons, Natasha, Tanja Hoffmann, Debbie Miller, Andrew Martindale, Kenneth M. Ames, and Michael Blake. 2021. “Were the Ancient Coast Salish Farmers? A Story of Origins.” American Antiquity 86 (3): 504–525. 
Morell, Virginia. 2021, February 23. “The Dogs That Grew Wool and the People Who Love Them.” Hakai Magazine. 
German, Tracy, writer. 2019. Wild Archaeology. Season 1, episode 8, “Central Coast B.C.” Directed by Ian Thompson. 
German, Tracy, writer. 2019. Wild Archaeology. Season 1, episode 9, “Heiltsuk Nuyems.” Directed by Ian Thompson. 

Unit 4: The Turtle’s Shell

Section 4.1: Eastern Woodland Peoples and Living Landscapes
Howey, Meghan C. L., and Marieka Brouwer Burg. 2021. “Landscape Bundling of Ceremonial Earthworks: Incorporating Ethnohistoric and Contemporary Indigenous Ontologies to Revive Great Lakes Archaeological Legacy Datasets.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology no. 62, 101272.
Price, Michael Wassegijig. 2015, December 28. “Underwater Panthers, Thunderbirds, and Anishinaabe Start Knowledge.” Lecture presented as part of the symposium Stellar Connections: Explorations in Cultural Astronomy, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. 
Section 4.2: The Connected Worlds of Plains, Basin, and Plateau Peoples
Oetelaar, Gerald A. 2021. “Natural Disasters and Interregional Interactions: La Longue Durée in Northern Plains Historical Developments.” Plains Anthropologist 66 (257): 1–33. 
STORYHIVE. 2016, January 13. Elder in the Making: Episode 3 Sacred Ground. YouTube, 23:13.

Unit 5: The Turtle’s Hind

Section 5.1: Mississippians and Ancient-Modern Identity in the Southeast
Spivey-Faulkner, S. Margaret. 2021. “Juggling Sand: Ethics, Identity, and Archaeological Geophysics in the Mississippian World.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports no. 36, 102882. 
Cities of the Sky. 2018. PBS. 
Section 5.2: Greater Southwest Peoples and Other Related Beings
Kelley, Klara. 2020. “Downy Home Man and Chacoan Macaws: How Diné Oral Tradition Can Enhance Archaeology.” Journal of Anthropological Research 76 (3): 274–295.
Jaquinto, Jessica, and Lyle Balenquah. 2017, March 21. “Diné Public, Fire, and Indigenous Archaeology.” Heritage Voices, episode 3. 
Section 5.3: The Living Legacies of Caribbean and Mesoamerican Peoples
Hofman, Corinne L., Jorge Ulloa Hung, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, Joseph Sony Jean, Till Sonnemann, and Menno Hoogland. 2018. “Indigenous Caribbean Perspectives: Archaeologies and Legacies of the First Colonised Region in the New World.” Antiquity 92 (361): 200–216. 
Peuramaki-Brown, Meaghan M., and Shawn G. Morton. 2021. “People, Animals, Protected Places, and Archaeology: A Complex Collaboration in Belize.” In Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature, edited by R.-H. Andersson, B. Cothran, and S. Kekki, 97–137. Helsinki University Press, Finland.

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Hills, Carol. 2021, July 5. “Scientists Turn to the Ancient Mayans for Lessons on Sustainability.” The World. 

Unit 6: Turtle Island’s Recent Histories

Section 6.1: Interactions and Encounters at “Contact”
Silliman, Stephen W. 2005. “Culture Contact or Colonialism? Challenges in the Archaeology of Native North America.” American Antiquity 70 (1): 55–74. 
Kristensen, Todd, J., and Reade Davis. 2015. “The Legacies of Indigenous History in Archaeological Thought.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22 (2): 512–542. 
German, Tracy, writer. 2019. Wild Archaeology. Season 1, episode 12, “Inuit of Rigolet (Pt. 1).” Directed by Ian Thompson. 
German, Tracy, writer. 2019. Wild Archaeology. Season 1, episode 13, “Inuit of Rigolet (Pt. 2).” Directed by Ian Thompson. 
Section 6.2: Impactful Archaeologies Today
Orser, Charles E., Jr. 2019. “Framing Questions That Count in African Canadian Archaeology.” Canadian Journal of Archaeology 43 (2): 217–241. 
Muckle, Robert. 2021. “Archaeology of Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Canadian Logging Camps in British Columbia.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 25 (3): 740–761. 
Wadsworth, William T. D., Kisha Supernant, Ave Dersch, and the Chipewyan Prairie First Nation. 2021. “Integrating Remote Sensing and Indigenous Archaeology to Locate Unmarked Graves: A Case Study from Northern Alberta, Canada.” Advances in Archaeological Practice 9 (3): 202–214.
German, Tracy, writer. 2019. Wild Archaeology. Season 2, episode 7, “Métis of Chimney Coulee (Pt. 1).” Directed by Jonathan Elliot and Mikelle Virey. 

Course Videos

Course Introduction

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Quizzes

Discussion Activities