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SUMMARY:Early Peoples in the Plateau:  Nimíipuu Knowledge and Landscape Adaptation in the Bitterroot Mountains
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture by WSU grad Student Jordan Thompson on early Northwest culture.\nAbstract: Mountain environments and resources have played a significant role in Indigenous cultural and subsistence lifeways and knowledge systems yet remain underrepresented in landscape research. Recent archaeological evidence points to the Southern Columbia Plateau as an early entry point for the Peopling of the Americas. Understanding the landscape is essential to adaptation in new and changing environments\, and archaeological methods combined with Indigenous knowledge are uniquely positioned to investigate these human-environment relationships. Indigenous oral narratives\, correlated with geologic processes\, reveal a deep record of landscape knowledge that may offer insight into early migration\, environmental adaptation\, and landscape exploration. In this talk\, I will present on collaborative research which integrates geoarchaeology and ethnogeology to examine how land use\, mobility\, and placemaking shaped the establishment of seasonal subsistence cycle among the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce). Ethnogeology foregrounds Indigenous perspectives of place\, complementing archaeological investigation by contextualizing the cultural meanings of stone artifacts. This talk will focus on Nimíipuu subsistence in an understudied portion of the western Bitterroot Mountain uplands\, a segment of the Northern Rockies\, in the North Fork Clearwater River watershed of Idaho by examining toolstone sources\, their distribution across the landscape\, and how these features acquire meaning. By combining geoarchaeological and ethnogeological frameworks\, this talk explores how people come to know\, understand\, and connect to landscapes while developing a sense of place with reciprocal subsistence systems.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/early-peoples-in-the-plateau-nimiipuu-knowledge-and-landscape-adaptation-in-the-bitterroot-mountains/
LOCATION:Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture\, 2316 W 1st Ave\, Spokane\, WA\, 99201\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cindy Bell":MAILTO:cbell2118@gmail.com
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