Reframing the Protohistoric Period and the (Peri)Colonial Process for the North American Central Plains

Bibliographic Data

ID3919034
AuthorsTrabert (0000-0001-9893-7296, University of Oklahoma, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume50
Issue5
Pages820-834
Publication date2018-10-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2019.1576539
OpenAlexW2917119425
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited36

In the North American Great Plains archaeologists struggle to define interpretative frameworks to capture events, people and processes between 1500 C.E. and 1800 C.E. Europeans did not simultaneously colonize all of North America and for many groups, especially on the Plains, Indigenous peoples were impacted by European colonization yet not extensively written about. Although the term 'colonialism' is broad enough to encapsulate the direct and indirect consequences of colonial activities, it is difficult to highlight the sheer diversity of Indigenous responses to the effects of colonialism outside of the colonies themselves. Instead, the concept of 'pericolonialism' better frames these processes and calls attention to the importance of refuge spaces where Indigenous peoples were experiencing parallel impacts as their neighbours close to the colonies. A case study is provided from the Central Plains to show how an explicitly decolonizing approach can better capture the creative resistance to European colonial rule

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Biology · Cognitive reframing · Colonial period · Colonialism · Colonization · Diversity (politics · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Indigenous · Period (music · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology

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