history and archaeology . Delicate ethnographic issue. Care in how to go about
it. Archaeologists to work with ethnographers.
Kintigh - Models- archaeologists work directly with the tribe. Archaeologists
work with oral history. Archaeologists work with tribal members.
Ferguson - Tribes control the research.
Dongoske - Some ethnographic data recorded wrong.
Laidlaw - Talk about oral tradition is like talking about sites. Oral history
covers a large body of data, and how do you collect any part of it. If
information is “sacred” it will not be given out, or if it is given out, will
probably be wrong. Lot of ethnographic data recorded in the past is
inaccurate. Some questions asked were absurd. Becareful of the oral history
collected around the turn of the century. Need the ethnographer, tribe
represented and people there in.
Reid - People participate in history.
Canouts - Challenged on these parallel tracts. If convergence that scientific
lends more credence to oral history. Have basis in material expression. All
kinds of knowledge needs to be given equal amounts of weight.
Downum - Movement in archaeology to question what we are doing, looking for
oral traditions to give validity to what we are doing. So now mine oral
tradition. What would Native Americans like to see archaeology do?
Archaeologists need Native American input to determine what features are
function, meaning. Archaeologists use oral tradition to validate historical
patterns. (change tape...) on verge of new ethnical trend. What do Native
Americans want out of archaeologists.
Dongoske - Run risk of science validating oral history. In court, take word of
Ph.D. rather than that of a Hopi. Native Americans asked to prove it! So a
partnership.
Gasser - At some places need Native American input. Simple passing down of
knowledge. Can over complicate things.
Kintigh - By in large archaeologists are sacred of Indians, physical
anthropologists are petrified. Social anthropologists not begin asked to work
with Indians.
Downum - Codes and ethics need to be better developed. Who should write
accounts, get the forum to disseminate information and in what form. Who
should talk about the past.
Jenkins - Archaeologists should be afraid of Indians. Especially Anasazi as
they’re cannibals! Wants to write a book: “Me Talk, You Listen”. Modern
archaeology should draw upon life