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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Moss, Madonna L.
• Wasson, George B.

Titel

Intimate relations with the past: The story of an Athapaskan village on the southern Northwest Coast of North America

Ist Teil von

• World archaeology, 1998-02, Vol.29 (3), p.317-332

Ort / Verlag

Basingstoke: Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

1998

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Pistol River site, located in the US state of Oregon, was the main village of the Chet-less-chundunn-dunne, a poorly documented Pacific Coast Athapaskan group. Represented at the site are materials dating to the AD 1600S prior to European contact through the nineteenth-century post-contact period. In 1854, fifteen women, ten men, eleven boys, and nine girls were living at the site, but two years later, a party of thirty-four Euroamerican men burned the village of Chet-less-chundunn. Archaeological investigations at the site span over 100 years, with the most recent excavation taking place in the 1960s. In this paper, we discuss the nineteenth-century occupation of the site as it can be pieced together from available evidence. We go on to explore the intimate relations between those who took part in the 1960s excavations and their ancestors, both Native and non-Native, as well as the mixed feelings of local rural residents towards archaeology. Finally, some ethical considerations of working with collections in a case like this are explored.