Nicholas C Laluk
Biographic Data
| ID | 217309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas C Laluk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas C |
| FAMILY NAME | Laluk |
| SIGNATURE | LALUK N C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Arizona University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7454-1676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bringing past into present
This conversation began as a roundtable at the 2023 joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society in Toronto. The roundtable was part of the Executive Program and was intended as a follow-up to Kisha Supernant’s keynote presentation, which was entitled ‘Truth before transition. Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice.’ Considering the sensitive nature of the topic, we responded to a select…
Indigenous Activism and Archaeology
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona
The impact of Indigenous populations on historical fire regimes has been controversial and beset by mismatches in the geographic scale of paleofire reconstructions and the scale of land-use behaviors. It is often assumed that anthropogenic burning is linearly related to population density and not different cultural practices. Here we take an off-site geoarchaeology strategy to reconstruct variability in historical fire regimes ( Pinus ponderosa )…
Why Am I Ephemeral?
Various terms and descriptions have been used to explain the lack of visibility of Ndee (Apache) landscape occupations and material traces over time. Such terms as low-visibility, highly mobile, and ephemeral are abundant in the archaeological and anthropological literature in reference to Ndee groups throughout the U.S. Southwest. Such terms imply a lack of material or environmental modifications is equivalent to non-existence. Archaeologists ha…
Archaeology and Social Justice in Native America - Corrigendum
Archaeology and Social Justice in Native America
Over the past 20 years, collaboration has become an essential aspect of archaeological practice in North America. In paying increased attention to the voices of descendant and local communities, archaeologists have become aware of the persistent injustices these often marginalized groups face. Building on growing calls for a responsive and engaged cultural heritage praxis, this forum article brings together a group of Native and non-Native schola…
We Know Who We Are and What Is Needed
Overall healing, harmony, and balance within Ndee (Apache) communities can be understood through the Ndee term Gózhó —“beauty, balance, and harmony.” Beyond this Ndee cultural precept, however, how are such states of Gózhó achieved, whether in the past or today? Within archaeological research on Ndee lands, achieving healing and promoting health is crucial to overall individual and community well-being. Healing activities that contribute to overa…
Changing how archaeology is done in Native American contexts
The White Mountain Apache Tribe Cultural Heritage Resource Best Management Practices (WMATCHRBMPs) present and delineate in guideline form cultural heritage resource definitions, management, and necessary steps before, during, and after project implementation for any ground-disturbing projects potentially adversely affecting cultural heritage resources on Ndee (Apache) trust lands. However, since the tribe’s adoption of the practices, the applica…
Ndee (Apache) Archaeology
Despite abundant historical interest in Apache subjugation and early reservation periods, Apache persists as a lacuna in Southwest archaeology. Vexing conceptual and practical challenges to site identification and analyses, coupled with a lack of research specifically focused on Apache histories, regions, and material cultures, have retarded the creation of archaeological knowledge comparable or even complementary to the richness and diversity of…
Becoming white clay
The indivisibility of land and mind
Contemporary understandings of Apache history and culture have largely resulted from anthropological work by non-Apache researchers. Most of this work has exhibited a limited appreciation of Apache ontologies that provide better understandings of Apache past and present . The goal of this article is to utilize the Apache concept of Ni and Apache interpretations of the Chiricahua mountainscape to demonstrate how Apache communities retain significa…
Archaeological Collaboration with American Indians
When Is a Site Culturally Viable
The indivisibility of land and mind
Contemporary understandings of Apache history and culture have largely resulted from anthropological work by non-Apache researchers. Most of this work has exhibited a limited appreciation of Apache ontologies that provide better understandings of Apache past and present . The goal of this article is to utilize the Apache concept of Ni and Apache interpretations of the Chiricahua mountainscape to demonstrate how Apache communities retain significa…
Archaeology and Social Justice in Native America
Over the past 20 years, collaboration has become an essential aspect of archaeological practice in North America. In paying increased attention to the voices of descendant and local communities, archaeologists have become aware of the persistent injustices these often marginalized groups face. Building on growing calls for a responsive and engaged cultural heritage praxis, this forum article brings together a group of Native and non-Native schola…
Changing how archaeology is done in Native American contexts
The White Mountain Apache Tribe Cultural Heritage Resource Best Management Practices (WMATCHRBMPs) present and delineate in guideline form cultural heritage resource definitions, management, and necessary steps before, during, and after project implementation for any ground-disturbing projects potentially adversely affecting cultural heritage resources on Ndee (Apache) trust lands. However, since the tribe’s adoption of the practices, the applica…
Archaeological Collaboration with American Indians
When Is a Site Culturally Viable
We Know Who We Are and What Is Needed
Overall healing, harmony, and balance within Ndee (Apache) communities can be understood through the Ndee term Gózhó —“beauty, balance, and harmony.” Beyond this Ndee cultural precept, however, how are such states of Gózhó achieved, whether in the past or today? Within archaeological research on Ndee lands, achieving healing and promoting health is crucial to overall individual and community well-being. Healing activities that contribute to overa…
Archaeology and Social Justice in Native America - Corrigendum
When Is a Site Culturally Viable
Archaeological Collaboration with American Indians
Ndee (Apache) Archaeology
Despite abundant historical interest in Apache subjugation and early reservation periods, Apache persists as a lacuna in Southwest archaeology. Vexing conceptual and practical challenges to site identification and analyses, coupled with a lack of research specifically focused on Apache histories, regions, and material cultures, have retarded the creation of archaeological knowledge comparable or even complementary to the richness and diversity of…
Becoming white clay
The indivisibility of land and mind
Contemporary understandings of Apache history and culture have largely resulted from anthropological work by non-Apache researchers. Most of this work has exhibited a limited appreciation of Apache ontologies that provide better understandings of Apache past and present . The goal of this article is to utilize the Apache concept of Ni and Apache interpretations of the Chiricahua mountainscape to demonstrate how Apache communities retain significa…
We Know Who We Are and What Is Needed
Overall healing, harmony, and balance within Ndee (Apache) communities can be understood through the Ndee term Gózhó —“beauty, balance, and harmony.” Beyond this Ndee cultural precept, however, how are such states of Gózhó achieved, whether in the past or today? Within archaeological research on Ndee lands, achieving healing and promoting health is crucial to overall individual and community well-being. Healing activities that contribute to overa…
Changing how archaeology is done in Native American contexts
The White Mountain Apache Tribe Cultural Heritage Resource Best Management Practices (WMATCHRBMPs) present and delineate in guideline form cultural heritage resource definitions, management, and necessary steps before, during, and after project implementation for any ground-disturbing projects potentially adversely affecting cultural heritage resources on Ndee (Apache) trust lands. However, since the tribe’s adoption of the practices, the applica…
Why Am I Ephemeral?
Various terms and descriptions have been used to explain the lack of visibility of Ndee (Apache) landscape occupations and material traces over time. Such terms as low-visibility, highly mobile, and ephemeral are abundant in the archaeological and anthropological literature in reference to Ndee groups throughout the U.S. Southwest. Such terms imply a lack of material or environmental modifications is equivalent to non-existence. Archaeologists ha…
Archaeology and Social Justice in Native America - Corrigendum
Archaeology and Social Justice in Native America
Over the past 20 years, collaboration has become an essential aspect of archaeological practice in North America. In paying increased attention to the voices of descendant and local communities, archaeologists have become aware of the persistent injustices these often marginalized groups face. Building on growing calls for a responsive and engaged cultural heritage praxis, this forum article brings together a group of Native and non-Native schola…
Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona
The impact of Indigenous populations on historical fire regimes has been controversial and beset by mismatches in the geographic scale of paleofire reconstructions and the scale of land-use behaviors. It is often assumed that anthropogenic burning is linearly related to population density and not different cultural practices. Here we take an off-site geoarchaeology strategy to reconstruct variability in historical fire regimes ( Pinus ponderosa )…
Bringing past into present
This conversation began as a roundtable at the 2023 joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society in Toronto. The roundtable was part of the Executive Program and was intended as a follow-up to Kisha Supernant’s keynote presentation, which was entitled ‘Truth before transition. Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice.’ Considering the sensitive nature of the topic, we responded to a select…
Indigenous Activism and Archaeology
Archaeology (8 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (4 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works)