T J Ferguson
Biographic Data
| ID | 103759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T J Ferguson |
| GIVEN NAMES | T J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferguson |
| SIGNATURE | FERGUSON T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7020-3423 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 544 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
In the Belly of the Beast: ” Feminist Lessons in the Politics and Practice of Abolition Feminism, Resistance, and Freedom
This article examines how incarcerated and formerly incarcerated advocates in California women’s prisons diagnose and resist structural, gendered carceral violence. Grounded in an abolition-feminist and intersectional framework, the study treats inside-authored writing and interviews as theory-bearing, not illustrative. Using a sequential mixed-methods design, it analyzes a longitudinal archive of The Fire Inside (1996–2022)—the California Coalit…
Zuni perspectives on historic preservation
The federal historic preservation program of the United States guided by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and its ensuing regulations is built on a framework that privileges Western epistemologies of time and space and perceives historic properties as inanimate remains that are valuable for their scientific potential and their capacity for representing significant historic contexts (Dongoske, Pasqual, and King Citation2015). The con…
This Place Belongs to Us: Historic Contexts as a Mechanism for Multivocality in the National Register
Since the creation of the National Register of Historic Places, determining eligibility for listing on it has become the fundamental process driving archaeology in the United States. This process affects how archaeological sites are identified, recorded, evaluated, and ultimately how they are protected. Yet less than 6% of properties on the National Register are archaeological sites. Although scholars often lament the rigidity of the National Reg…
Footprints of Hopi History
Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma dedicates this book to Dalton Taylor and the other advisors whom he first worked with at the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office, including ValJean Joshevama Sr., Frank Mofsi, LaVern Siweupmptewa, Owen Numkena, and Bert Puhuyestewa.e cultural knowledge and wisdom shared by these advisors
Footprints of Hopi History: Hopihiniwtiput Kukveni'at
Kukveni—footprints—are a powerful historical metaphor that the Hopi people use to comprehend their tangible heritage. Hopis say that the deity Máasaw instructed their ancestors to leave footprints during their migrations from their origin place to their home today as evidence that they had fulfilled a spiritual pact to serve as stewards of his land. Today’s Hopis understand these footprints to be the archaeological remains of former settlements—p…
Hopisinmuy Wu’ya’mat Hisat Yang Tupqa’va Yeesiwngwu (Hopi Ancestors Lived in These Canyons)
Legacies of space and intangible heritage : archaeology, ethnohistory, and the politics of cultural
Tree-Ring Dates and Navajo Settlement Patterns in Arizona
The historical timing and movement of Navajo communities in the U.S. Southwest continue to be key, but unresolved, issues. This paper analyzes tree-ring data to consider initial Navajo settlement patterns in the Little Colorado River watershed, Black Mesa, and nearby regions in northern Arizona. We are critical of previous studies that deem all tree-ring dates to be equally valid, so we present a new approach to systematically identify potential …
Sherds on the Edge: Characterization of 16th Century Colonial Spanish Pottery Recovered from the Solomon Islands
We present the results of instrumental neutron activation analysis of ceramics recovered from the Solomon Islands, associated with Alvaro de Mendaña y Neira's 16th century colonizing expedition to the region (c.1595–6). Based on the chemical and typological data and previously published petrological and geochronological research, this study assigns the provenance of the ceramics variously to Peru, Panama, Spain, China and Thailand. A comparison o…
Laguna Sheepherding
In the U.S. Southwest, the introduction of domesticated animals in 1540 dramatically changed Native American subsistence strategies and cultural practices. Pueblo communities across the Southwest quickly adopted sheep into their diet and became dedicated sheepherders within a century, coming to hold herds numbering into the thousands. The Pueblo of Laguna, in west-central New Mexico, became especially focused on sheepherding in the mid-1800s, and…
Behavioral ecology and optimality: Seeking alternative views
Co-Creation of Knowledge by the Hopi Tribe and Archaeologists
For two decades, the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office has worked with archaeologists to co-create knowledge about the past and document contemporary values associated with heritage sites. Much of this work has been accomplished within the framework of research mandated by the National Historic Preservation Act and National Environmental Policy Act. Here we describe a case study that illustrates the processes of this community-based participatory…
Diabase Temper as a Marker for Laguna Ceramics
The Western Keresan area consists of the present-day Pueblos of Laguna and Acoma. In the 1950s, Florence Hawley Ellis proposed that a high proportion of Laguna ceramics could be distinguished from the ceramics produced by Acoma and other population centers by the frequent use of diabase temper. We conducted a petrographic analysis of 51 ceramic sherds designed to test the veracity of this association. Historic period sherds from culinary and deco…
The Snow-Capped Mountain and the Uranium Mine: Zuni Heritage and the Landscape Scale in Cultural Resource Management
Known in English as Mount Taylor, Dewankwin Kyaba:chu Yalanne (“in the east snow-capped mountain”) in northwestern New Mexico is a sacred landscape to the Zuni people. From an archaeological perspective, the mountain is dotted with hundreds of discrete archaeological sites that record 12,000 years of history. From a Zuni perspective, Mount Taylor is a rich cultural landscape—a tangible record of ancestral migrations, a living being, a pilgrimage …
Community-Based Archaeology: Research With, By, and for Indigenous and Local Communities
Community-Based Archaeology: Research With, By, and for Indigenous and Local Communities." Plains Anthropologist, 59(229), pp. 96–97
Recording Toponyms to Document the Endangered Hopi Language
The toponyms of Hopitutskwa ("Hopi land") explicate Hopi history and culture. Place-names mark sacred locations, landforms associated with deities and historical events, springs, trails, and "footprints" of ancestral villages, petroglyphs, and other archaeological sites. The National Science Foundation funded a collaborative project to document the Hopi language by recording toponyms and associated narratives. Interviews with 15 Hopi individuals …
Sourcing Olive Jars Using U‐Pb Ages of Detrital Zircons: A Study of 16th Century Olive Jars Recovered from the Solomon Islands
We present U‐Pb ages of zircons extracted from olive jars recovered from two sites associated with Alvaro de Mendaña y Neyra's colonising expedition to the Solomon Islands, c . 1595–1596 A.D. The olive jars were previously associated with Panamanian and Peruvian origins based on petrological and geochemical studies. To further define provenance, 143 zircons were extracted from five olive jar sherds, analyzed and dated. The resultant U‐Pb ages ran…
Moquis and Kastiilam: Coronado and the Hopis
Moquis and Kastiilam: Coronado and the Hopis Thomas E. Sheridan (bio), Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa (bio), Anton T. Daughters (bio), T. J. Ferguson (bio), Leigh Kuwanwisiwma (bio), Dale S. Brenneman (bio), and Lee Wayne Lomayestewa (bio) The following document and interview constitute the first chapter in Volume I of Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History. When published, the two volumes will tell, from both Hopi and Spanish…
Studying Technological Practices at a Local Level: Neutron Activation and Petrographic Analyses of Early Ceramic Period Pottery in Central Chile
We discuss neutron activation and petrographic analyses of domestic ceramics and some raw materials from five archaeological sites in the Valdivia de Paine locality, in Central Chile. During the time period studied, the area was occupied by small‐scale horticultural groups with disperse and sedentary or semi‐sedentary settlement patterns. The analyses indicate that diverse local raw material sources were used in pottery production, and shared by …
Examining the Production and Distribution of Shivwits Ware Pottery in the American Southwest
Compositional analyses were undertaken to evaluate the hypothesis that Shivwits Ware pottery found in southern Nevada was not produced in that area but, instead, manufactured on the Shivwits Plateau. The evidence supports this hypothesis and indicates that large quantities of Shivwits Ware jars moved through a distribution system linking the upland areas of the western Arizona Strip with the lowlands of southeastern Nevada. This long-distance mov…
Multivocality in Multimedia: Collaborative Archaeology and the Potential of Cyberspace
Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts. Margaret Kovach
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The Premise and Promise of Indigenous Archaeology
Researchers have increasingly promoted an emerging paradigm of Indigenous archaeology, which includes an array of practices conducted by, for, and with Indigenous communities to challenge the discipline's intellectual breadth and political economy. McGhee (2008) argues that Indigenous archaeology is not viable because it depends upon the essentialist concept of 'Aboriginalism.' In this reply, we correct McGhee's description of Indigenous Archaeol…
Intersecting magisteria: Bridging archaeological science and traditional knowledge
Stephen Jay Gould famously argued that science and religion are fundamentally 'nonoverlapping magisteria' - two spheres of understanding that should peacefully coexist without intersecting. However, when Native American religious practices contain cultural and historical information that can inform archaeological interpretations, the wall separating these spheres of knowledge necessarily breaks down. This essay examines how archaeological science…
Repatriation of Ahayu: DA: 20 Years Later
In April 1990, just six months before the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), I conducted an interview with the Zuni Tribal Council about their experiences repatriating the Ahayu:da Zuni War Gods. When NAGPRA was placed into law, the War Gods became an exemplar of cultural patrimony. In this brief invited commentary, I reflect on the interview, the significance of the War Gods in NAGPRA, and the shifts …
The Premise and Promise of Indigenous Archaeology
Researchers have increasingly promoted an emerging paradigm of Indigenous archaeology, which includes an array of practices conducted by, for, and with Indigenous communities to challenge the discipline's intellectual breadth and political economy. McGhee (2008) argues that Indigenous archaeology is not viable because it depends upon the essentialist concept of 'Aboriginalism.' In this reply, we correct McGhee's description of Indigenous Archaeol…
Memory Pieces and Footprints: Multivocality and the Meanings of Ancient Times and Ancestral Places among the Zuni and Hopi
The notion of the "contested past" has grown to be an important topic in anthropological research in recent decades, linking such themes as nationalism, identity, museology, tourism, and war. In North America, these discussions have largely centered on archaeology's shifting relationship with native peoples. As scholars give new attention to how research methodologies and representation of cultural histories affect indigenous peoples, it is criti…
Native Americans and the Practice of Archaeology
Archaeologists are in the midst of restructuring their relationship with Native Americans. The legal, political, social, and intellectual ramifications of this process are reviewed to examine the fundamental changes occurring in the way archaeology is conducted in the Americas. Much of the impetus for this change resulted from the criticism of archaeology by Native Americans, which led to passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repat…
Archaeological Cultures and Cultural Affiliation: Hopi and Zuni Perspectives in the American Southwest
Archaeologists and Native Americans apply different concepts to classify ancient groups of people who lived in the past. This is a topic of current interest because many archaeologists in the United States are now having to determine the cultural affiliation of the materials they study to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The Hopi and Zuni tribes in the American Southwest are used as case examples to examine …
The Return of the Ahayu: Da: Lessons for Repatriation from Zuni Pueblo and the Smithsonian Institution [and Comments and Replies]
Animate Objects: Shell Trumpets and Ritual Networks in the Greater Southwest
A Zuni Atlas
Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems
The Pueblo of Zuni has been actively involved in the repatriation of cultural property and human remains since 1977, long before the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990.1 Several key elements of the Zuni position regarding repatriation were incorporated into the act. The Zuni War Gods were mentioned by name as an exemplar of cultural patrimony to be covered by the law during the Senate hearings that prece…
Recording Toponyms to Document the Endangered Hopi Language
The toponyms of Hopitutskwa ("Hopi land") explicate Hopi history and culture. Place-names mark sacred locations, landforms associated with deities and historical events, springs, trails, and "footprints" of ancestral villages, petroglyphs, and other archaeological sites. The National Science Foundation funded a collaborative project to document the Hopi language by recording toponyms and associated narratives. Interviews with 15 Hopi individuals …
Co-Creation of Knowledge by the Hopi Tribe and Archaeologists
For two decades, the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office has worked with archaeologists to co-create knowledge about the past and document contemporary values associated with heritage sites. Much of this work has been accomplished within the framework of research mandated by the National Historic Preservation Act and National Environmental Policy Act. Here we describe a case study that illustrates the processes of this community-based participatory…
Critique of the Claim of Cannibalism at Cowboy Wash
The article by Billman et al. contributes to a growing body of data that demonstrates the complex variability of the Pueblo world during the twelfth century. Although the article's title promises a comprehensive review of major cultural and environmental processes (drought, warfare, cannibalism, regional interactions), relatively little theory regarding these processes informs their research design, and much of their interpretation is based on we…
Cultural resources management at the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico, USA
As once-colonial countries recognize the special claim of indigenous peoples to their own history, so archaeology is becoming more a partnership between researcher and community. The next step, of indigenous people directing their own archaeology, was taken long ago by the Zuni peopel of New Mexico, in a programme that is an example and model for others. The authors have worked in the Zuni programmes for over 15 years
The Young Delinquent in his Social Setting
Journal Article The Young Delinquent in his Social Setting Get access The Young Delinquent in his Social Setting. By T. FERGUSON. (London : Oxford University Press, for the Nuffield Foundation, 1952. Pp. xii + 158. 10s. 6d.) N. B. Dearle N. B. Dearle All Souls College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 63, Issue 250, 1 June 1953, Pages 428–429, https://doi.org/10.2307/2227…
Intersecting magisteria: Bridging archaeological science and traditional knowledge
Stephen Jay Gould famously argued that science and religion are fundamentally 'nonoverlapping magisteria' - two spheres of understanding that should peacefully coexist without intersecting. However, when Native American religious practices contain cultural and historical information that can inform archaeological interpretations, the wall separating these spheres of knowledge necessarily breaks down. This essay examines how archaeological science…
Virtue Ethics and the Practice of History: Native Americans and Archaeologists along the San Pedro Valley of Arizona
For nearly a century archaeologists have endeavored to illuminate 12,000 years of Native American history in the San Pedro Valley of southeastern Arizona. Although this scholarship has established an essential foundation, it is limited by the construction of history through the singular interpretive framework of western scientific practice. The Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Zuni and Western Apache peoples all maintain oral traditions that provide alterna…
Putting patria back into repatriation: Cultural affiliation assessment of White Mountain Apache tribal lands
In 2003 and 2004 the White Mountain Apache Tribe worked with the Hopi and Zuni tribes and the Western Apache NAGPRA Working Group on a geography-based cultural affiliation assessment of trust lands on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in the uplands of eastern Arizona. The project partnership examined a broad array of evidence bearing on cultural affiliation as a basis for improved implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repa…
The Snow-Capped Mountain and the Uranium Mine: Zuni Heritage and the Landscape Scale in Cultural Resource Management
Known in English as Mount Taylor, Dewankwin Kyaba:chu Yalanne (“in the east snow-capped mountain”) in northwestern New Mexico is a sacred landscape to the Zuni people. From an archaeological perspective, the mountain is dotted with hundreds of discrete archaeological sites that record 12,000 years of history. From a Zuni perspective, Mount Taylor is a rich cultural landscape—a tangible record of ancestral migrations, a living being, a pilgrimage …
Sourcing Olive Jars Using U‐Pb Ages of Detrital Zircons: A Study of 16th Century Olive Jars Recovered from the Solomon Islands
We present U‐Pb ages of zircons extracted from olive jars recovered from two sites associated with Alvaro de Mendaña y Neyra's colonising expedition to the Solomon Islands, c . 1595–1596 A.D. The olive jars were previously associated with Panamanian and Peruvian origins based on petrological and geochemical studies. To further define provenance, 143 zircons were extracted from five olive jar sherds, analyzed and dated. The resultant U‐Pb ages ran…
Archaeological Collaboration with American Indians: Case Studies from the Western United States
The Repatriation of Ahayu: Da Zuni War Gods
This Place Belongs to Us: Historic Contexts as a Mechanism for Multivocality in the National Register
Since the creation of the National Register of Historic Places, determining eligibility for listing on it has become the fundamental process driving archaeology in the United States. This process affects how archaeological sites are identified, recorded, evaluated, and ultimately how they are protected. Yet less than 6% of properties on the National Register are archaeological sites. Although scholars often lament the rigidity of the National Reg…
Examining the Production and Distribution of Shivwits Ware Pottery in the American Southwest
Compositional analyses were undertaken to evaluate the hypothesis that Shivwits Ware pottery found in southern Nevada was not produced in that area but, instead, manufactured on the Shivwits Plateau. The evidence supports this hypothesis and indicates that large quantities of Shivwits Ware jars moved through a distribution system linking the upland areas of the western Arizona Strip with the lowlands of southeastern Nevada. This long-distance mov…
Settlement and Growth of Zuni Pueblo: An Architectural History
The architectural history of Zuni Pueblo is reviewed. Inferences about the settlement and growth of the pueblo are drawn from archaeological data, plans, and photographs of the village. Key principles and features of nineteenth century Zuni architecture are elucidated. The dramatic architectural transformation of Zuni Pueblo during the last century is described, and the changing and enduring aspects of Zuni architecture are discussed
Moquis and Kastiilam: Coronado and the Hopis
Moquis and Kastiilam: Coronado and the Hopis Thomas E. Sheridan (bio), Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa (bio), Anton T. Daughters (bio), T. J. Ferguson (bio), Leigh Kuwanwisiwma (bio), Dale S. Brenneman (bio), and Lee Wayne Lomayestewa (bio) The following document and interview constitute the first chapter in Volume I of Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History. When published, the two volumes will tell, from both Hopi and Spanish…
Studying Technological Practices at a Local Level: Neutron Activation and Petrographic Analyses of Early Ceramic Period Pottery in Central Chile
We discuss neutron activation and petrographic analyses of domestic ceramics and some raw materials from five archaeological sites in the Valdivia de Paine locality, in Central Chile. During the time period studied, the area was occupied by small‐scale horticultural groups with disperse and sedentary or semi‐sedentary settlement patterns. The analyses indicate that diverse local raw material sources were used in pottery production, and shared by …
The Young Delinquent in his Social Setting
Journal Article The Young Delinquent in his Social Setting Get access The Young Delinquent in his Social Setting. By T. FERGUSON. (London : Oxford University Press, for the Nuffield Foundation, 1952. Pp. xii + 158. 10s. 6d.) N. B. Dearle N. B. Dearle All Souls College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 63, Issue 250, 1 June 1953, Pages 428–429, https://doi.org/10.2307/2227…
The Young Delinquent in His Social Setting
In Their Early Twenties: A Study of Glasgow Youth
The Mentally Subnormal
Some Aspects of Medical Geography
A Zuni Atlas
A Zuni Atlas
Settlement and Growth of Zuni Pueblo: An Architectural History
The architectural history of Zuni Pueblo is reviewed. Inferences about the settlement and growth of the pueblo are drawn from archaeological data, plans, and photographs of the village. Key principles and features of nineteenth century Zuni architecture are elucidated. The dramatic architectural transformation of Zuni Pueblo during the last century is described, and the changing and enduring aspects of Zuni architecture are discussed
A Zuni Atlas
A Zuni Atlas
The Repatriation of Ahayu: Da Zuni War Gods
Archeology: Preservation on the Reservation: Native Americans, Native American Lands and Archaeology . Anthony L. Klesert and Alan S. Downer , eds
Cushing at Zuni: The Correspondence and Journals of Frank Hamilton Cushing, 1879-1884
Abandonment at Zuni farming villages
Introduction The pueblo of Zuni, in western New Mexico, is currently the major year–round residence of most of the Zuni people. Within 30 miles of Zuni is a series of small villages (Fig. 10.1), called Ojo Caliente, Tekapo, Pescado, and Nutria, the latter two being divided by some residents into Upper and Lower segments. Until about fifty years ago these villages were occupied on a seasonal basis by many of the Zuni while they farmed or herded sh…
The Return of the Ahayu: Da: Lessons for Repatriation from Zuni Pueblo and the Smithsonian Institution [and Comments and Replies]
Born a Chief: The Nineteenth Century Hopi Boyhood of Edmund Nequatewa
Journal Article Born a Chief: The Nineteenth Century Hopi Boyhood of Edmund Nequatewa Get access Born a Chief: The Nineteenth Century Hopi Boyhood of Edmund Nequatewa. As told to Alfred F. Whiting. Edited by Seaman P. David. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993. xxvi + 193 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $13.95.) T. J. Ferguson T. J. Ferguson Institute of the North American West Search for other works by this author on: …
Cultural resources management at the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico, USA
As once-colonial countries recognize the special claim of indigenous peoples to their own history, so archaeology is becoming more a partnership between researcher and community. The next step, of indigenous people directing their own archaeology, was taken long ago by the Zuni peopel of New Mexico, in a programme that is an example and model for others. The authors have worked in the Zuni programmes for over 15 years
Native Americans and the Practice of Archaeology
Archaeologists are in the midst of restructuring their relationship with Native Americans. The legal, political, social, and intellectual ramifications of this process are reviewed to examine the fundamental changes occurring in the way archaeology is conducted in the Americas. Much of the impetus for this change resulted from the criticism of archaeology by Native Americans, which led to passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repat…
Pollen, Stratigraphy, and Chronology of the North Edge of Zuni Pueblo
The north edge of the Pueblo of Zuni, called So 'biyahna: wa (“Place Where the Sand Drops Off”), was formed by the accumulation of 3 1/2 m of wind-drifted sand interspersed with trash, deposited after the seventeenth century. The sedimentary sequence is dated by pottery and radiocarbon dates on charcoal that occur in the alternating layers of refuse and fine eolian sand. The pollen content of the cultural deposits and eolian sand is dominated by …
Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems
The Pueblo of Zuni has been actively involved in the repatriation of cultural property and human remains since 1977, long before the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990.1 Several key elements of the Zuni position regarding repatriation were incorporated into the act. The Zuni War Gods were mentioned by name as an exemplar of cultural patrimony to be covered by the law during the Senate hearings that prece…
Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present . Brian K. Roberts
Archaeological Cultures and Cultural Affiliation: Hopi and Zuni Perspectives in the American Southwest
Archaeologists and Native Americans apply different concepts to classify ancient groups of people who lived in the past. This is a topic of current interest because many archaeologists in the United States are now having to determine the cultural affiliation of the materials they study to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The Hopi and Zuni tribes in the American Southwest are used as case examples to examine …
Preservation and Research of Sacred Sites by the Zuni Indian Tribe of New Mexico
Sacred sites are important in the ceremonial life of the Zuni Indians of the American Southwest. To protect these sites, both on and off the Zuni Indian Reservation, the Zuni Tribe has used two research and management strategies: (1) historic preservation, and (2) legislation and litigation. In this article, the Zuni Tribe's use of historic preservation to manage sacred sites is analyzed using the report series of the Zuni Archaeology Program. Wh…
Hopi Dwellings: Architecture at Orayvi. Catherine Cameron
Critique of the Claim of Cannibalism at Cowboy Wash
The article by Billman et al. contributes to a growing body of data that demonstrates the complex variability of the Pueblo world during the twelfth century. Although the article's title promises a comprehensive review of major cultural and environmental processes (drought, warfare, cannibalism, regional interactions), relatively little theory regarding these processes informs their research design, and much of their interpretation is based on we…
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