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Drowned Memories: The Submerged Places of the Winnemem Wintu

Drowned Memories: The Submerged Places of the Winnemem Wintu This article is a brief overview of an instance where landscape inundation has disconnected culture from place. The Winnemem Wintu, a Native American tribe in Northern California, had most of their ancestral landscape along the McCloud River submerged by the construction of Shasta Dam just after World War II. The tribe’s remaining traditional cultural properties are under continual threat of loss and/or destruction, leaving the tribe’s ability to practice traditional ceremonies crippled by legal battles and fights against the continual assertion of United States hegemonic power over tribal cultural identity. As part of archaeological research on these submerged places, the tribe’s spiritual leader, Caleen Sisk-Franco, and Tribal Headman, Mark Franco, spoke with the author about these threats and how their culture must adapt to meet them. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archaeologies Springer Journals

Drowned Memories: The Submerged Places of the Winnemem Wintu

Archaeologies , Volume 6 (2) – Jul 7, 2009

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by World Archaeological Congress
Subject
Social Sciences; Archaeology; Anthropology; Cultural Heritage
ISSN
1555-8622
eISSN
1935-3987
DOI
10.1007/s11759-009-9109-9
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Abstract

This article is a brief overview of an instance where landscape inundation has disconnected culture from place. The Winnemem Wintu, a Native American tribe in Northern California, had most of their ancestral landscape along the McCloud River submerged by the construction of Shasta Dam just after World War II. The tribe’s remaining traditional cultural properties are under continual threat of loss and/or destruction, leaving the tribe’s ability to practice traditional ceremonies crippled by legal battles and fights against the continual assertion of United States hegemonic power over tribal cultural identity. As part of archaeological research on these submerged places, the tribe’s spiritual leader, Caleen Sisk-Franco, and Tribal Headman, Mark Franco, spoke with the author about these threats and how their culture must adapt to meet them.

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ArchaeologiesSpringer Journals

Published: Jul 7, 2009

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