The Sound of Silence

Tiina Äikäs is a senior researcher at Archaeology, University of Oulu, Finland, and has a title of Docent in Archaeology, University of Helsinki, Finland. She specializes in Sámi archaeology, with a special interest in Sámi sacred places and their use from the Iron Age to contemporary times. She has also published on contemporary meanings and uses of heritage and on post-colonial archaeology in several international journals.

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Chapter 1. Introduction: In Search of Indigenous Voices in the Historical Archaeology of Colonial Encounters

Tiina Äikäs and Anna-Kaisa Salmi



Chapter 2. The Sounds of Colonization: An Examination of Bells at Point Pearce Aboriginal Mission Station/Burgiyana, South Australia

Madeline Fowler, Amy Roberts, and Lester-Irabinna Rigney



Chapter 3. Colonization, Sámi Sacred Sites and Religious Syncretism, c. AD 500–1800

Inga-Maria Mulk and Tim Bayliss-Smith



Chapter 4. Seeking the Indigenous Perspective: Colonial Interactions at Fort Saint Pierre, French Colonial Louisiane (1719–29)

LisaMarie Malischke



Chapter 5. Clockwork Porridge: An Archaeological Analysis of Everyday Life in the Early Mining Communities of Swedish Lapland in the Seventeenth Century

Risto Nurmi



Chapter 6. “Not on Bread but on Fish and By Hunting”: Food Culture in Early Modern Sápmi

Ritva Kylli, Anna-Kaisa Salmi, Tiina Äikäs and Sirpa Aalto



Chapter 7. Landscapes of Resilience at the Cut Bank Boarding School, Montana

William A. White and Brandi E. Bethke



Chapter 8. Conflicts in Memory and Heritage: Dakota Perspectives on Historic Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Katherine Hayes



Chapter 9. Discussion: Colonialism Past and Present: Archaeological Engagements and Entanglements

Carl-Gösta Ojala



Chapter 10. Perspectives on Indigenous Voices and Historical Archaeology

Alistair Paterson and Shino Konishi



Afterword

Alistair Paterson and Shino Konishi



Index