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In the fall of 1886, Boston philanthropist Mary Tileston Hemenway sponsored an archaeological expedition to the American Southwest. Directed by anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing, the Hemenway Expedition sought to trace the ancestors of the ZuAis with an eye toward establishing a museum for the study of American Indians. In the third year of fieldwork, Hemenway's overseeing board fired Cushing based on doubts concerning his physical health and mental stability, and much of the expedition's work went unpublished. Today, however, it is recognized as a critical base for research into all of southwestern prehistory. Drawing on materials housed in half a dozen institutions and now brought together for the first time, this projected seven-volume work presents a cultural history of the Hemenway Expedition and early anthropology in the American Southwest, told in the voices of its participants and interpreted by contemporary scholars. Taken as a whole, the series comprises a thorough study and presentation of the cultural, historical, literary, and archaeological significance of the expedition, with each volume posing distinct themes and problems through a set of original writings such as letters, reports, and diaries. Accompanying essays guide readers to a coherent understanding of the history of the expedition and discuss the cultural and scientific significance of these data in modern debates. This first volume, "The Southwest in the American Imagination," presents the writings of Sylvester Baxter, a journalist who became Cushing's friend and publicist in the early 1880s and who traveled to the Southwest and wrote accounts of the expedition. Included are Baxter's early writings aboutCushing and the Southwest, from 1881 to 1883, which reported enthusiastically on the anthropologist's work and lifestyle at ZuAi before the expedition. Also included are published accounts of the Hemenway Expedition and its scientific promise, from 1888 to 1889, drawing on Baxter's central role in expedition affairs as secretary-treasurer of the advisory board. Series co-editor Curtis Hinsley provides an introductory essay that reviews Baxter's relationship with Cushing and his career as a journalist and civic activist in Boston, and a closing essay that inquires further into the lasting implications of the "invention of the Southwest," arguing that this aesthetic was central to the emergence and development of southwestern archaeology. Seen a century later, the Hemenway Expedition provides unusual insights into such themes as the formation of a Southwestern identity, the roots of museum anthropology, gender relations and social reform in the late nineteenth century, and the grounding of American nationhood in prehistoric cultures. It also conveys an intellectual struggle, ongoing today, to understand cultures that are different from the dominant culture and to come to grips with questions concerning America's meaning and destiny.

Travel. --- Zuni Indians. --- Indians of North America. --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of North America --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- A:shiwi (Zuni) --- A'shiwi (Zuni) --- Zuñian Indians --- Pueblo Indians --- Traveling --- Travelling --- Tourism --- Voyages and travels --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Literature: history & criticism

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This book examines ways of conserving, managing, and interacting with plant and animal resources by Native American cultural groups of the Pacific Coast of North America, from Alaska to California. These practices helped them maintain and restore ecological balance for thousands of years. Building upon the authors and others previous works, the book brings in perspectives from ethnography and marine evolutionary ecology. The core of the book consists of Native American testimony: myths, tales, speeches, and other texts, which are treated from an ecological viewpoint. The focus on animals and in-depth research on stories, especially early recordings of texts, set this book apart. The book is divided into two parts, covering the Northwest Coast, and California. It then follows the division in lifestyle between groups dependent largely on fish and largely on seed crops. It discusses how the survival of these cultures functions in the contemporary world, as First Nations demand recognition and restoration of their ancestral rights and resource management practices.

Human ecology --- Indians of North America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Human ecology. --- Indians of North America.

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This groundbreaking work examines engagement between people and the environment across a variety of themes, from aboriginal appropriation of nature to colonistsâ reworking of physical and conceptual geographies, demonstrating the consequences of these interactions as they permeated various social and cultural spheres. It offers a new lens for viewing a region as it provides fresh insight into such topics as landscape change, perceptions of place, and Indigenous-white relations. The Fraser Valley has long been a scene of natural resource appropriation--furs and fish, timber and agriculture--with settlement patterns and land claims centering on the use of these materials. Oliver demonstrates how social change and cultural understanding are tied to the way that people use and remake the landscape. Drawing on ethnographic texts, archaeological evidence, cartography, and historical writing, he has created a deep history of the valley that enables us to view how human entanglements with landscape were creative of a variety of contentious issues. By capturing the multiple dynamics that were operating in the past, Oliver shows us not only how landscape transformations were implicated in constructing different perceptions of place but also how such changes influenced peoplesâ understanding of history and identity. The Fraser Valley in British Columbia has been viewed historically as a typical setting of Indigenous-white interaction. Jeff Oliver now reexamines the social history of this region from pre-contact to the violent upheavals of nineteenth and early twentieth century colonialism to argue that the dominant discourses of progress and colonialism often mask the real social and physical process of change that occurred here--change that can be more meaningfully tied to transformations in the land.

Cultural landscapes --- Social archaeology --- Human ecology --- Material culture --- Land settlement --- Colonization --- Indians of North America --- Paysages culturels --- Archéologie sociale --- Ecologie humaine --- Culture matérielle --- Colonisation intérieure --- Colonisation --- Indiens d'Amérique --- History --- Social aspects --- First contact with Europeans --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Premiers contacts avec les Européens --- Fraser River Valley (B.C.) --- Fraser, Vallée du (C.-B.) --- Historical geography --- Social conditions --- Géographie historique --- Conditions sociales --- Weisse. --- Indianer. --- Sozialer Wandel. --- Kulturwandel. --- Landschaftsentwicklung. --- Social archaeology. --- Material culture. --- Land settlement. --- Human ecology. --- Historical geography. --- Cultural landscapes. --- Colonisation interieure --- Culture materielle --- Écologie humaine --- Archeologie sociale --- First contact with other peoples. --- Social aspects. --- Histoire. --- First contact with other peoples --- History. --- Fraser River. --- British Columbia --- Social conditions. --- Cultural geography --- Landscapes --- Landscape archaeology --- Archaeology --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Resettlement --- Settlement of land --- Colonies --- Land use, Rural --- Human settlements --- Imperialism --- Decolonization --- Emigration and immigration --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Geography, Historical --- Geography --- First contact (Anthropology) --- Methodology --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Ethnology --- First contact with Occidental civilization --- Fraser Valley (B.C.)