O’Odham Pottery: Prehistoric, Historic, and Contemporary Native American Ceramic Production in the Phoenix Basin of Southern Arizona with Linda Morgan & Katrina Soke
Within the last three decades, Native communities in the United States have taken on the management of their own archaeological resources, including the establishment of Cultural Resource Management Departments. These developments have resulted in increased interactions between archaeologists and Native people, which has led to a better understanding of indigenous material culture, especially more recent remains, which for obvious reasons are more concentrated within extant Native American reservations, such as the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC). This presentation discusses research by the GRIC Cultural Resource Management Program (GRIC-CRMP), focusing on their recent contributions to the indigenous ceramic analysis process.
Linda Morgan, M.A., (Akimel O’Odham, Dinè), is from Blackwater, AZ. and a member of the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC). She has worked for the GRIC’s Cultural Resource Management Program (CRMP) since 1994 and is currently a Project Manager. She has been a ceramic analyst for the department since 1994 specializing in the analysis of prehistoric Hohokam and Historic O’Odham indigenous ceramics. She has a BA in Anthropology and a Master’s Degree in Museum Studies from Arizona State University.
Katrina Soke, (Akimel O’Odham), is from Gila Crossing, AZ. She is an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC), where she was born and raised. She has worked for the GRIC’s Cultural Resource Management Program (CRMP) since 2016 as a Laboratory Technician. She is a ceramic analyst with extensive experience studying prehistoric and historic Indigenous ceramics.
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