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Date Permissions Signed

11-18-2022

Date of Award

Fall 2022

Document Type

Masters Thesis

Department or Program Affiliation

Anthropology

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Anthropology

First Advisor

Pine, Judith M. S.

Second Advisor

Campbell, Sarah K.

Third Advisor

Hammond, Joyce D., 1950-

Abstract

Images are powerful communicators of ideas because they shape how people perceive and understand the past (Moser 1996, Arnold 2005). It is important to critically look at them with a decolonizing lens to ensure that the artists who make these images and the authors that use them do not imply harmful or disrespectful ideas about the people depicted. For my thesis, I critically examine how archaeologists and other authors present ideas about indigenous Northwest Coast and Coast Salish people’s traditional lifeways through images. By looking at existing images from my perspective as an archaeologist and artist and including perspectives from the Lummi Cultural Resource Preservation Commission, I consider how dominant colonial ideologies have influenced representations of past Northwest Coast and Coast Salish peoples. I have kept these ideas in mind when creating new images of past Coast Salish lifeways inspired by archaeological evidence.

Type

Text

Keywords

Indigenous, Decolonization, Archaeology, Coast Salish, Northwest Coast, Native, Representation

Publisher

Western Washington University

OCLC Number

1352260790

Subject – LCSH

Coast Salish Indians--Northwest, Pacific--Social life and customs; Decolonization--Northwest, Pacific

Geographic Coverage

Northwest, Pacific; Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation, Washington

Format

application/pdf

Genre/Form

masters theses

Language

English

Rights

Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.

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