September Speaker – Thursday September 12, 2024
Dr. Carlton Shield Chief Gover (Pawnee Nation) – University of Kansas – Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Assistant Curator of Archaeology
September 12, 2024 @7:30 via zoom
Title: Cultivating Identity: The Ethnogenesis of the Pawnee People
Abstract: The origins of the Pawnee people in the Central Plains have long been discussed in Great Plains Archaeology. Weaving together Pawnee oral traditions, archaeological information, and new radiocarbon data, I explore the history and utility of Indigenous archaeologies as a systematic and theoretical framework for conducting archaeological practice and why the approach is necessary for interpreting the results of my analyses. Oral traditions belonging to the Arikara and Pawnee Nation’s regarding social change, ethnogenesis, and population movement are presented and evaluated for interpreting the appearance of maize farming and permanent settlement patterns between the 11th and 17th centuries C.E.
Bio: Dr. Carlton Shield Chief Gover is a Citizen of the Pawnee Nation, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology, and an Assistant Curator of Archaeology at the University of Kansas. His research utilizes Pawnee and Arikara oral traditions regarding population movement and social change as foundational evidence for interpreting the archaeological record from the 9th to 16th centuries A.D. He has published in American Antiquity, Plains Anthropologist, and Advances in Archaeological Practice.
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