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From Collaboration to Partnership at Pojoaque, New Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2020

Bruce Bernstein
Affiliation:
Pueblo of Pojoaque, 78 Cities of Gold Road, Santa Fe, NM87506, USA
Scott G. Ortman*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder, 233 UCB, Boulder, CO80303, USA
*
(scott.ortman@colorado.edu, corresponding author)

Abstract

For the past six years, the Pueblo of Pojoaque and University of Colorado Boulder have been working together to investigate ancestral sites on and adjacent to Pojoaque land. Through our partnership, we believe we have learned some important lessons about the potential of archaeology for tribal communities, how archaeologists and tribal members can work together as coinvestigators, how such partnerships improve archaeological practice, and how the incorporation of traditional knowledge leads to better archaeology in both its humanistic and scientific dimensions. In addition, we believe it is a more sustainable and ethical model to engage the cultures in which archaeologists work. In this article, we share the story of our partnership, consider how it relates to existing perspectives on archaeology and Native communities, present a few results from our work at the ancestral site of K'uuyemugeh, and offer some reflections on our efforts to put a partnership model into practice.

Durante los últimos seis años, el Pueblo de Pojoaque y la Universidad de Colorado Boulder han estado trabajando juntos para investigar sitios ancestrales en tierra adyacente a Pojoaque. A través de nuestra asociación, creemos que hemos aprendido algunas lecciones importantes sobre el potencial de la arqueología para las comunidades tribales, cómo los arqueólogos y los miembros tribales pueden trabajar juntos como coinvestigadores, cómo tales asociaciones mejoran la práctica arqueológica y cómo la incorporación del conocimiento tradicional conduce a mejor arqueología en sus dimensiones humanista y científica. Además, creemos que es un modelo más sostenible y ético para involucrar a las culturas en las que trabajan los arqueólogos. En este documento, compartimos la historia de nuestra asociación; considerar cómo se relaciona con las perspectivas existentes sobre arqueología y comunidades nativas; presentar algunos resultados de nuestro trabajo en el sitio ancestral de K'uuyemugeh; y ofrecer algunas reflexiones sobre nuestros esfuerzos para poner en práctica un modelo de asociación.

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