Re-assembling radical indigenous autonomy in the Alta California hinterlands : survivance at Puhú
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Conducted in a community-based participatory research (CBPR) framework in partnership with Tongva, Acjachemen, (Blas Adobe Aguliar Museum, Juaneño--Acjachemen Culture Center) and Payómkawichum (Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians) peoples, this dissertation is an Indigenous Archaeology study of the California Historic Landmark (CHL#217; CA-ORA-132 and CA-ORA-317) Black Star Canyon Puhú Village site in the Santa Ana Mountains of Orange County, California. The landmark memorializes the 1832 CE "Battle in Cañón de los Indios". Indigenous occupants of the Puhú village were accused of stealing horses from local colonial settlers over several months, after which, the village was razed by hired American frontiersmen. I integrate perspectives from descendant collaborators, Indigenous survivance, philosophies of historicity, guerilla resistance, Practice Theory, and Assemblage Theory in the analysis of archaeological and ethnohistorical data collected from five years of interviews, archival research, surveys, excavations, and laboratory research under the Black Star Canyon Archaeology Project (BSCAP). The result of my archaeological and ethnoarchival research reveals how the Puhú occupants exercised economic and political traditions within and beyond the village to exceed a condition of bare survival or micropolitical resistance after colonization. This study facilitates new attention to enduring communal scale Indigenous traditions associated with macropolitical forms of autonomy and prosperity in the Los Angeles Basin proximal colonial hinterlands. In doing so, the archaeological study is envisioned as facilitating a mode of Indigenous survivance-storytelling by challenging the foundations of colonial historiography associated with the landmark
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Acebo, Nathan Patrick |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Voss, Barbara L, 1967- |
| Thesis advisor | Voss, Barbara L, 1967- |
| Thesis advisor | Hodder, Ian |
| Thesis advisor | Liu, Li, 1953 December 12- |
| Thesis advisor | Panich, Lee M, 1978- |
| Thesis advisor | Wilcox, Michael V. (Michael Vincent), 1967- |
| Degree committee member | Hodder, Ian |
| Degree committee member | Liu, Li, 1953 December 12- |
| Degree committee member | Panich, Lee M, 1978- |
| Degree committee member | Wilcox, Michael V. (Michael Vincent), 1967- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Nathan Patrick Acebo |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- © 2020 by Nathan Patrick Acebo
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