Two Indigenous archaeologists in the U.S. Southwest shed light on how “abandonment” and similar terms continue to cause harm.
"Two Indigenous archaeologists from the U.S. Southwest shed light on how “abandonment” and other common archaeological terms continue to cause harm. They offer insights into how to rewrite narratives of the past. . . ."
"Today, with the appointment of Secretary Deborah Haaland, a member of Laguna Pueblo (a federally recognized tribe), as head of the U.S. Department of the Interior, the stories and laws might be changing within certain contexts. However, false interpretations of history still perpetuate the harms of colonialist practices. These flawed chronicles undermine Indigenous peoples’ knowledge about their own histories on specific landscapes. They also continue the erasure and misrepresentation of American Indian pasts in public narratives."
