Dr. Sarah Trabert and Dr. Brandi Bethke Published an Article in American Antiquity.

Brandi Bethke (Oklahoma Archeological Survey), Sarah Trabert (Anthropology), and Gary McAdams (Wichita and Affiliated Tribes) recently published an article in American Antiquity on the methods they used to document a 20^th century Wichita camp and dance ground.

“Anchoring Sovereignty in Space: Documenting Places of Wichita Community Building in the Twentieth Century” shows how a combination of traditional archaeological field methods with ethnographic interviews are vital to fully documenting complex and significant places that were recently used by Tribes to gather. Places like Camp Creek were incredibly important for the preservation and continuation of Native American languages, cultural traditions, community values, and social connections at a time when the federal government was attempting ethnocide.