Across a Great Divide: Continuity and Change in Native North American Societies, 1400–1900

Contents

Contents Foreword by John Ware vii 1 Crossing Divides: Archaeology as Long-Term History 1 Mark D. Mitchell and Laura L. Scheiber 2 Agency and Practice in Apalachee Province 23 John F. Scarry 3 Long-Term History, Positionality, Contingency, Hybridity: Does Rethinking Indigenous History Reframe the Jamestown Colony? 42 Jeffrey L. Hantman 4 When Moral Economies and Capitalism Meet: Creek Factionalism and the Colonial Southeastern Frontier 61 Cameron B. Wesson 5 Not Just “One Site Against the World”: Seneca Iroquois Intercommunity Connections and Autonomy, 1550–1779 79 Kurt A. Jordan 6 A Prophet Has Arisen: The Archaeology of Nativism among the Nineteenth-Century Algonquin Peoples of Illinois 107 Mark J. Wagner 7 Mountain Shoshone Technological Transitions across the Great Divide 128 Laura L. Scheiber and Judson Byrd Finley 8 The Plains Hide Trade: French Impact on Wichita Technology and Society 149 Susan C. Vehik, Lauren M. Cleeland, Richard R. Drass, Stephen M. Perkins, and Liz Leith vi Contents 9 “Like Butterflies on a Mounting Board”: Pueblo Mobility and Demography before 1825 174 Jeremy Kulisheck 10 The Diné at the Edge of History: Navajo Ethnogenesis in the Northern Southwest, 1500–1750 192 Richard H. Wilshusen 11 A Cross-Cultural Study of Colonialism and Indigenous Foodways in Western North America 212 Anthony P. Graesch, Julienne Bernard, and Anna C. Noah 12 Identity Collectives and Religious Colonialism in Coastal Western Alaska 239 Liam Frink 13 Crossing, Bridging, and Transgressing Divides in the Study of Native North America 258 Stephen W. Silliman References Cited 277 About the Contributors 329 Index 337 ...