We are aiming to compile a database of academic journals, accounts, articles, and other publications that relate to Indigenous art, knowledge, motifs, and other images. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Depictions of elk in rock art are some of the oldest carved images in North America and have been a point of fascination for archaeologists. Yet, these images have primarily been studied from a Western tradition that ignores Indigenous understandings of rock art. These representations must be seen as Indigenous knowledge transmitted across generations, and interpretations must be rooted in Indigenous ontologies to fully contextualize images. This project will bring together different data through visiting circles, archival materials, and ethnobotany. Utilizing a mixed methods approach, this project will answer three key questions: How long have Lakota people practiced the elk dance? How are Lakota women part of the creation of rock art? How does the landscape contextualize the rock art images? This research will propose a new rock art methodology that interprets, understands, and presents this type of archaeological feature in a manner that is simultaneously grounded in Lakota knowledge and Western archaeological tradition. This project will shift our comprehension of this particular medium’s materiality into Indigenous frameworks both past and present. The ultimate goal of this Indigenous-centered methodology will be to (re)contextualize and (re)engage rock art sites with, by, and for Lakota communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This undergraduate research performed by Gentry aims to identify gendered motifs in Plains rock art and begin deconstructing interpretations of gender in Northwest Plains rock art, enabling consideration of nonbinary or third genders within local communities. They use an index of gendered motifs and features present in Plains rock art to analyze and question the binary gendering of figures and archaeological sites. They then argue for the consideration of nonbinary figures in Plains rock art as well as the critical examination of previously gendered sites, stressing that this consideration should extend to archeological sites worldwide and emphasize the importance of de-centering binary concepts of gender in archeological practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Current Projects TIKIL Digital Library We are aiming to compile a database of academic journals, accounts, articles, and other publications that relate to Indigenous art, knowledge, motifs, and other images. Elk Images and Elk Traditions: (Re)Contextualizing Lakota Rock Art as Sites of Continued Cultural Knowledge and Resiliency Depictions of elk in rock art are some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44189,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":null},"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.labs.wsu.edu\/tikil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.labs.wsu.edu\/tikil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.labs.wsu.edu\/tikil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.labs.wsu.edu\/tikil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.labs.wsu.edu\/tikil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.labs.wsu.edu\/tikil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.labs.wsu.edu\/tikil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.labs.wsu.edu\/tikil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.labs.wsu.edu\/tikil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.labs.wsu.edu\/tikil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.labs.wsu.edu\/tikil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.labs.wsu.edu\/tikil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}