Archaeology, Preservation, and Public Memory: Challenging the Settler Narrative at Historic Fort Snelling
in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall in the Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center at Macalester College 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN, United StatesPresented by Katherine Hayes Archaeology undertaken in service of preservation in the 20th century often reflected the values of the time. At Historic Fort Snelling, archaeology served to bolster a distinctly non-inclusive narrative of American enterprise at the frontier and the triumph of settler rugged individualism. Yet the excavated remains do still hold remnants of other […]