Margaret Bruchac

Biographic Data

ID745825
NAMEMargaret Bruchac
GIVEN NAMESMargaret
FAMILY NAMEBruchac
SIGNATUREBRUCHAC M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pennsylvania
ORCID0000-0002-8671-5917
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS43
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • The Speaking Past

    Andrew Martindale, Margaret Bruchac et al.CHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Indigenous…2025

    This chapter examines how Indigenous oral traditions and archaeological practice intersect, revealing the power dynamics, colonial legacies, and cultural perspectives that shape historical narratives. It challenges the biases that marginalize oral histories in scholarly discourse and critiques the dominance of Western archaeological methodologies. By analyzing how oral traditions convey history and relate to material evidence, the chapter undersc…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Oral Traditions and Archaeology

    Margaret Bruchac, Andrew Martindale et al.EDITORBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Indigenous…2024

    Archaeology has increasingly engaged with Indigenous oral traditions as a means to develop closer relationships with, and understandings of, Indigenous communities and their ancestors. Here we refer to “oral traditions” as records of history transmitted across generations via practices of memory, often perpetuated in the context of performance, symbolism, ritual, ecological knowledge, and other forms of situated learning. As the principal records…

  • Ephemeral Encounters

    Margaret M Bruchac, Margaret Bruchac et al.ARTICLEThe Public Historian2021

    In this “report from the field,” we write from two perspectives, as a curator and as an advisor, on the process of interpreting Native American documents in the 2016 American Philosophical Society Museum exhibition, “Gathering Voices: Thomas Jefferson and Native America.” We share insights into our curatorial and representational goals, and reflect on the challenges of interpreting Indigenous heritage and traditional knowledges in materials that …

  • Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Knowledge

    Open AccessMargaret M Bruchac, Margaret BruchacCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Global Archaeology2020

  • Decolonization in Archaeological Theory

    Open AccessMargaret M Bruchac, Margaret BruchacCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Global Archaeology2020

  • Savage Kin

    Margaret M Bruchac, Margaret Bruchac et al.BOOKSavage Kin2018Cited by: 23

  • Ephemeral Encounters and Material Evidence

    Open AccessMargaret BruchacARTICLEAnthropology News2016

    Gathering Voices: Thomas Jefferson and Native America."Writing from my perspective as an advisor to that exhibition, I share some reflections on

  • Decolonization in Archaeological Theory

    Margaret M Bruchac, Margaret BruchacCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Global Archaeology2014

  • My Sisters Will Not Speak

    Open AccessMargaret M Bruchac, Margaret BruchacARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2014Cited by: 5References: 7

    First Nations women were instrumental to the collecting of Northwest Coast Indigenous culture, yet their voices are nearly invisible in the published record. The contributions of George Hunt, the Tlingit/British culture broker who collaborated with anthropologist Franz Boas, overshadow the intellectual influence of his mother, Anislaga Mary Ebbetts, his sisters, and particularly his Kwakwaka'wakw wives, Lucy Homikanis and Tsukwani Francine 'Nakwa…

  • Materiality and Autonomy in the Pocumtuck Homeland

    Open AccessMargaret Bruchac, HartARTICLEArchaeologies2012References: 9

  • Constructing Indigenous Associations

    Open AccessMargaret M Bruchac, Margaret BruchacARTICLEAnthropology News2010Cited by: 3

  • Lost and Found

    Open AccessMargaret M Bruchac, Margaret BruchacARTICLEMuseum Anthropology2010Cited by: 12References: 21

    This research examines the disarticulation of Native American funerary assemblages in museum collections and highlights the challenges of identifying them for inventories mandated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990. Indigenous objects and human remains from burial sites were routinely subjected to collecting and sorting procedures that stripped them of meaning and context. NAGPRA does not, however, requ…