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I worked on NAGPRA inventories for the New York State Museum a couple of
years ago. The museum held collections from several sites in the Mohawk
valley of New York dating to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that
had been excavated by avocational archaeologists during the early to
mid-twentieth century. Native burials at the earlier sites were flexed or
loosely flexed while later eighteenth century sites produced Native American
graves containing burials interred in the European style (in wooden coffins,
extended, laying on the back) as opposed to the traditional Native style
(flexed). Grave goods at the earlier sites included a mixture of Native
American and European trade articles like turtle effigy pendants, projectile
points, trade beads, and Jesuit religious objects while the later sites
contained more European and fewer Native American objects. These sites
represent early conversion of Mohawk Indians to Catholicism by Jesuits with
evidence of the retention of some Native material culture. It is well known
that the Jesuits were more tolerant of Native culture than were other
Christians (see "The Invasion Within" by Axtell). I would be interested in
learning whether differences between these and other Christian-Indian sites
exist (i.e. evidence of less tolerant English Protestants, perhaps in the
exclusion of Native grave goods from early Christian Indian graves).
Kerry Nelson
----- Original Message -----
From: david galletti <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 3:36 PM
Subject: Conversion to Christianity
> I was pondering a recent article about the archaeology of a mission
station
> in South Africa, and I got to thinking about the archaeology of conversion
> to Christianity. Have there been any other examples of mission stations
> excavated in the USA or abroad?
>
> And there is the wider question of what effects would we expect to be
caused
> by conversions; as well as the obvious acceptqance of overtly Christian
> material culture, is is possible to make more general cross-cultural
> comparisons about the process of religion? What is the relationship
between
> Conversion and Globalism?
>
> Some ideas for a hot summers day!
>
> dave galletti
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