Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. This volume examines common trajectories in indigenous colonial histories, and explores new ways to understand cultural contact, hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and colonial powers from the indigenous point of view. By bringing together a wide geographical range and combining multiple sources such as oral histories, historical records, and contemporary discourses with archaeological data, the volume finds new multivocal interpretations of colonial histories.

Anna-Kaisa Salmi is an associate professor in Archaeology, University of Oulu, Finland. She has published widely on post-Medieval zooarchaeology, the archaeology of the Sámi animal-offering tradition and human-reindeer relationships. Her research has focused on foodways, human-animal and human-environmental relationships in the north and reindeer domestication.

List of illustrations

Chapter 1. Introduction: In Search of Indigenous Voices in the Historical Archaeology of Colonial Encounters
Tiina Äikäs and Anna-Kaisa Salmi

Chapter 2. The Sounds of Colonization: An Examination of Bells at Point Pearce Aboriginal Mission Station/Burgiyana, South Australia
Madeline Fowler, Amy Roberts, and Lester-Irabinna Rigney

Chapter 3. Colonization, Sámi Sacred Sites and Religious Syncretism, c. AD 5001800
Inga-Maria Mulk and Tim Bayliss-Smith

Chapter 4. Seeking the Indigenous Perspective: Colonial Interactions at Fort Saint Pierre, French Colonial Louisiane (171929)
LisaMarie Malischke

Chapter 5. Clockwork Porridge: An Archaeological Analysis of Everyday Life in the Early Mining Communities of Swedish Lapland in the Seventeenth Century
Risto Nurmi

Chapter 6. Not on Bread but on Fish and By Hunting: Food Culture in Early Modern Sápmi
Ritva Kylli, Anna-Kaisa Salmi, Tiina Äikäs and Sirpa Aalto

Chapter 7. Landscapes of Resilience at the Cut Bank Boarding School, Montana
William A. White and Brandi E. Bethke

Chapter 8. Conflicts in Memory and Heritage: Dakota Perspectives on Historic Fort Snelling, Minnesota
Katherine Hayes

Chapter 9. Discussion: Colonialism Past and Present: Archaeological Engagements and Entanglements
Carl-Gösta Ojala

Chapter 10. Perspectives on Indigenous Voices and Historical Archaeology
Alistair Paterson and Shino Konishi

Afterword
Alistair Paterson and Shino Konishi

Index