Allison,

You may want to take a look at -

Spector, Janet
1993  What This Awl Means:  Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota
Village.  Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul, Minnesota.
This book documents research on an 1830s Dakota (Sioux) Village in
Minnesota.

Also, some of the chapters in the following book may be of use -

Nassaney, Michael and Eric Johnson
2000  Interpretations of Native North American Life:  Material
Contributions to Ethnohistory.  University Press of Florida and the
Society for Historical Archaeology, Gainesville, Florida.

Cheers,

Sean Dunham

Sean B. Dunham, RPA
Archaeologist/Principal Investigator
Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group, Inc.
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