Affiliation:
1. Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, School of Anthropology, The University of Arizona, USA
2. School of Anthropology, The University of Arizona, USA
Abstract
We highlight the significance of process, event, and context of human practice in Indigenous Creation traditions to integrate Blackfoot “Napi” origin stories with environmental, geological, and archaeological information pertaining to the peopling of the Northwestern Plains, where the northern Rocky Mountain Front may have played a prominent role. First, we discuss the potential and limitations of origin stories generally, and Napi stories specifically, for complementing the fragmentary records of early human presence in the Blackfoot homeland. Second, we demonstrate the intimate connection among processes, events, place-making practices, and stories. Last, we aim to expand multivocality in the interpretation of the deep past through an archaeological practice that considers Indigenous philosophies and stories to be as valid as non-Indigenous ones.
Funder
National Science Foundation ASSP
Subject
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Archaeology
Cited by
6 articles.
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