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{"title":"When Dream Bear Sings: Native Literatures of the Southern Plains","authors":"Alison M. Hadley","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2020.1851852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2020.1851852","url":null,"abstract":"When Dream Bear Sings edited by Gus Palmer, Jr. is an ambitious volume that brings together the tribal stories, myths, folktales, and personal sketches and poems from multiple scholars and artists. The volume is organized by seven language families and a language isolate. Within these sections are individual works for each language family: one in Athabaskan, one in Kiowa-Tanoan, one in a language isolate (Tonkawa), two in Uto-Aztecan, four in Iroquoian, seven in Caddoan, nine in Siouan, and eleven in Algonquian. Some of the works have been previously published and are newly translated, and some stories are published for the first time. The introduction to the text comments on the cultural landscape of the Southern Great Plains, discussing the people that lived there before and after removal efforts. This edited volume includes works from both of these groups. The introduction also notes the importance of language survival and the noble efforts presented here to retain the original orthography. Much of the introduction discusses the controversies of translations, including the way that stories change when they are transcribed into another language. Additionally, oral narratives are indelibly changedwhen they are written in any language. Cultural context is also important when reading and interpreting the stories included in the book. Palmer notes that native knowledge has increased over the years with Pan-Indianmovements and language preservation programs. An ever-present challenge is accurately translating a work into another language and attempting to convey its meaning by getting to the “heart of things”. The Algonquian language family contains six different groups, Cheyenne with six stories and the other five (Absentee Shawnee, Kickapoo, Lenape, Miami, and Potawatomi) each with a single story. The Cheyenne section of the text begins with a Gordon Yellowman’s explanation of storytelling traditions and the appropriate time of day and season for each type of tale. “The Bear and the Coyote” is documented in Cheyenne and then translated into English by Joyce Twins. The other four stories were told by Birdie Burns of the Cheyenne tribe and discuss ancient lifeways of the Cheyenne. The Absentee Shawnee chapter written by the editor includes a brief background on the language and a pronunciation guide. The short poems in this section were written by Pauline Wahpepah, a native speaker and teacher, and are entitled Eagle, Bear, Sun, and Flower. The selection for the Kickapoo language byMosiah Bluecloud is from a story discovered in the basement of the Kickapoo Secondary Administration Building in McCloud, Oklahoma. The tale is about motorcyclists harassing an Indian man at a diner and the man gets his revenge. The Lenape section contains background on the language as well as a map on the tribe’s removal. The story about the origin of the woman dance is recorded in Lenape and English. An interesting addition in this chapter is a link that directs readers","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"66 1","pages":"172 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00320447.2020.1851852","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46398951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hematite beads from the Frost Clovis site, Logan County, Colorado","authors":"B. Asher, J. Hofman, S. Holen","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2020.1791783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2020.1791783","url":null,"abstract":"In the early 1890s, Logan County, Colorado farmer John Frost was digging a lateral line from an irrigation ditch to his field when he encountered probable human bones. Associated with these skeletal remains were three large Clovis chipped stone preforms or projectile points, and at minimum five hematite beads. We report on the portion of the private collection that was available for study over a century later in 1999, including four hematite beads and one large projectile point preform. The history and significance of the discovery are outlined, and comparisons are made with other Paleoindian localities containing beads or hematite.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"65 1","pages":"281 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00320447.2020.1791783","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44299423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Natural disasters and interregional interactions: La Longue Durée in Northern Plains historical developments","authors":"G. Oetelaar","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2020.1809762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2020.1809762","url":null,"abstract":"Some 6730 radiocarbon years ago, the Plinian eruption of Mount Mazama prompted dispersed bison hunting groups to temporarily abandon their traditional homelands and seek refuge among their distant relatives in the east. During their stay, they established new social ties and learned new technologies such as stone boiling. Returning to their homeland, they adapted this technology to extract bone grease and produce pemmican. This reliable, storable, portable, and nutritious foodstuff provided security for the Northern Plains groups and gave them a valuable trade good to exchange with their eastern neighbors. This natural disaster thus initiated a series of practices to maintain and expand their social safety net through interregional interactions with groups over a very long time. From the exchange of goods and information to the development of extensive trade centers, the bison hunters and their neighbors established an ever-expanding trade network where regional economic, social, ritual and historical practices evolved in tandem with local developments.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"66 1","pages":"1 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00320447.2020.1809762","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43463592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Culture History of the Central Great Plains Prior to the Introduction of Pottery","authors":"D. Bamforth","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2020.1812482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2020.1812482","url":null,"abstract":"This volume reprints E. Mott Davis’ 1954 Harvard dissertation. Dissertations written long ago can merit modern attention because they illuminate the historical development of our field, provide ins...","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"65 1","pages":"378 - 379"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00320447.2020.1812482","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42254729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Call for Editor","authors":"R. Hoard, K. Pool","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2020.1822695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2020.1822695","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"65 1","pages":"380 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00320447.2020.1822695","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48871226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New investigations at Bonfire shelter, Texas examine controversial bison jumps and bone beds","authors":"J. D. Kilby, Sean P. Farrell, M. Hamilton","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2020.1812795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2020.1812795","url":null,"abstract":"Bonfire Shelter (41VV218) is a nationally significant site in the Lower Pecos region of the West Texas borderlands that contains a record of episodic use by hunter-gatherers spanning at least twelve millennia. At least two major bison hunting episodes are evident at Bonfire Shelter, one associated with Paleoindian Plainview and Folsom projectile points (Bone Bed 2), and another associated with Late Archaic Castroville and Montell points (Bone Bed 3). The approximately 12,000-year-old layers comprising Bone Bed 2 may represent the oldest and southernmost bison jump in North America, but this interpretation is the subject of recent debate. In addition, older deposits containing Rancholabrean fauna but lacking stone tools (Bone Bed 1) date to approximately 14,000 years ago and are proposed by previous researchers to be at least partially the result of human activity. This article reviews the issues surrounding Bone Bed 2 and Bone Bed 1 and presents new radiocarbon dates, artifacts, features, along with some initial observations and ongoing plans for renewed field investigations at Bonfire Shelter carried out by the Ancient Southwest Texas Project at Texas State University.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"66 1","pages":"34 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00320447.2020.1812795","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48006817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Caddo or Cahokian? Stylistic and compositional analyses of a fine-engraved vessel from northwest Iowa","authors":"W. Green, J. Stoltman, George R. Holley, Cynthia D. Strong, J. Ferguson, J. Tiffany","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2020.1801323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2020.1801323","url":null,"abstract":"A ceramic vessel found at a Mill Creek culture (eastern Initial Middle Missouri variant) site in northwest Iowa exhibits features characteristic of both the Southern Caddo Holly Fine Engraved type and the Fine Engraved Carving type of the American Bottom Fine Grog series. Knowing the vessel’s likely manufacturing locale is important in understanding relationships between Middle Missouri tradition people and distant groups to the south. To determine whether the vessel was made in the Caddo area or the Cahokia region, we employ stylistic analysis and three forms of compositional analysis: petrographic, X-ray fluorescence, and neutron activation. We conclude that the vessel was neither made locally in northwest Iowa nor in the Caddo area. It might have been made in the Cahokia region by a potter versed in the Caddo ceramic vocabulary, but further analysis of potential American Bottom source clays is needed.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"66 1","pages":"86 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00320447.2020.1801323","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44655218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mesoamerican-Mississippian interaction across the far Southern Plains by long-range Toyah intermediaries","authors":"Stephen M. Carpenter","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2020.1779910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2020.1779910","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of interaction between Mesoamerica and Eastern North America has long endured despite the lack of clearly defined pathways through which such ties might have occurred. In 1948, archaeologist Alex Krieger theorized two possible overland interaction routes, one designated the Gilmore Corridor through the interior Gulf Coastal Plain and another across the Southern Plains and through the American Southwest. A review of the current data fails to support the Gilmore Corridor but provides comparatively robust evidence for the alternative route through the Southern Plains. Using archaeological, archaeobotanical, and historical datasets, this paper suggests the Toyah Corridor served as an economic conduit for movement of things and ideas from Mesoamerica through the American Southwest and thence via long-range cultural intermediaries to Eastern North America. Other interaction networks in earlier times and other geographies were likely, but this corridor perhaps presents one of the more substantiated avenues based on the cumulative evidence. The theorized connection reveals economic processes and thereby sets up archaeological expectations for Mesoamerican and Mississippian interaction across the Plains and at either end.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"65 1","pages":"325 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00320447.2020.1779910","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46269492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Hazen collection: A new source on Arikara material culture","authors":"C. Greene","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2020.1786621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2020.1786621","url":null,"abstract":"Scholarly knowledge of nineteenth century Arikara history and culture has been informed by archaeological investigation, documentary sources, and community knowledge as recorded in the twentieth century and carried today. Ethnographic objects in museum collections have not made as great a contribution, in part because of a dearth of reliably documented material. This paper introduces an important collection from General William B. Hazen that has only recently been recognized as associated with the Arikara. Assembled at Fort Buford in the 1870s, it documents the material culture of the scouts who served there, the families who accompanied them, and the residents of a nearby Hidatsa village. Detailed information on the assembly and transfer of the collection reveals processes and agencies in the movement of objects out of Native communities and into museum holdings.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"65 1","pages":"357 - 377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00320447.2020.1786621","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41836027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"McKean in the Northern Rocky Mountain Front: Economic landscape and ethnogenesis","authors":"François B. Lanoë, M. Zedeño, Danielle R. Soza, A. Jansson","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2019.1689347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2019.1689347","url":null,"abstract":"We characterize the McKean (Middle Archaic) settlement of the Lewis Range in the Northern Rocky Mountain Front based on new excavations at the well-preserved and multi-component Billy Big Spring site, Montana, and on a reevaluation of the regional archaeological grey literature. The study area contains numerous McKean sites despite being generally considered marginal to the McKean world. Economic strategies emphasize upland sheep hunting using probable traps or blinds and foothills bison ambush hunting near wetlands. The emergence of well-defined economic strategies during the Middle Archaic in the Northern Rocky Mountain Front coincides with the appearance of several markers of social identity in the northwestern Plains. When combined, these traits point to the emergence of ethnic/cultural identities in the Archaic period and suggest complex demographic and social processes that are often overlooked in traditional discussions of projectile point distribution and chronology.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"65 1","pages":"227 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00320447.2019.1689347","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43918046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}