Melissa R. Baltus is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toledo.Sarah E. Baires is assistant professor of anthropology at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas: Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms asks and attempts to answer some of the big questions facing archaeology today: what is impact and role of the ontological turn in archaeological interpretations of the Indigenous Americas? How are we to understand and recognize multiple forms of agency and animacy? And how can archaeology approach the ontological turn without engaging in neocolonial theorizing that erases, ignores, or claims ownership over Indigenous epistemologies? Baltus and Baires’s volume advances archaeological theorizing about relationality and multiple ontologies in the past and the present. The diverse case studies highlight the vibrancy of past lifeworlds in new and exciting ways.

• Chapter 1: A Relational Geography of Humans and Animals on the Arctic Coast of Alaska by Erica Hill Chapter 2: The government of dogs: Archaeological (zo)ontologies by Peter WhitridgeChapter 3: A Procession of Faces: Considering the Materiality of Relational Ontologies in Southern Florida by Matthew Colvin and Victor D. ThompsonChapter 4: Vessels of Change: Everyday relationality in the rise and fall of Cahokia by Melissa R. Baltus Chapter 5:How Animistic Entities Make History: Maya Materialities and Spiritualities over the Longue Durée by Christina HalperinChapter 6:Getting to the Soul of Personhood: A Survey of Historic Woodland and Plains Indian Ontologies and a Critique of the Notion of a Hopewellian “Religion" by Christopher Carr, Heather Smyth, and Brianna Rafidi

Melissa R. Baltus is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toledo.Sarah E. Baires is assistant professor of anthropology at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas: Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms asks and attempts to answer some of the big questions facing archaeology today: what is impact and role of the ontological turn in archaeological interpretations of the Indigenous Americas? How are we to understand and recognize multiple forms of agency and animacy? And how can archaeology approach the ontological turn without engaging in neocolonial theorizing that erases, ignores, or claims ownership over Indigenous epistemologies? Baltus and Baires’s volume advances archaeological theorizing about relationality and multiple ontologies in the past and the present. The diverse case studies highlight the vibrancy of past lifeworlds in new and exciting ways.

• Chapter 1: A Relational Geography of Humans and Animals on the Arctic Coast of Alaska by Erica Hill Chapter 2: The government of dogs: Archaeological (zo)ontologies by Peter WhitridgeChapter 3: A Procession of Faces: Considering the Materiality of Relational Ontologies in Southern Florida by Matthew Colvin and Victor D. ThompsonChapter 4: Vessels of Change: Everyday relationality in the rise and fall of Cahokia by Melissa R. Baltus Chapter 5:How Animistic Entities Make History: Maya Materialities and Spiritualities over the Longue Durée by Christina HalperinChapter 6:Getting to the Soul of Personhood: A Survey of Historic Woodland and Plains Indian Ontologies and a Critique of the Notion of a Hopewellian “Religion" by Christopher Carr, Heather Smyth, and Brianna Rafidi

Melissa R. Baltus is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toledo.Sarah E. Baires is assistant professor of anthropology at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas: Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms asks and attempts to answer some of the big questions facing archaeology today: what is impact and role of the ontological turn in archaeological interpretations of the Indigenous Americas? How are we to understand and recognize multiple forms of agency and animacy? And how can archaeology approach the ontological turn without engaging in neocolonial theorizing that erases, ignores, or claims ownership over Indigenous epistemologies? Baltus and Baires’s volume advances archaeological theorizing about relationality and multiple ontologies in the past and the present. The diverse case studies highlight the vibrancy of past lifeworlds in new and exciting ways.

• Chapter 1: A Relational Geography of Humans and Animals on the Arctic Coast of Alaska by Erica Hill Chapter 2: The government of dogs: Archaeological (zo)ontologies by Peter WhitridgeChapter 3: A Procession of Faces: Considering the Materiality of Relational Ontologies in Southern Florida by Matthew Colvin and Victor D. ThompsonChapter 4: Vessels of Change: Everyday relationality in the rise and fall of Cahokia by Melissa R. Baltus Chapter 5:How Animistic Entities Make History: Maya Materialities and Spiritualities over the Longue Durée by Christina HalperinChapter 6:Getting to the Soul of Personhood: A Survey of Historic Woodland and Plains Indian Ontologies and a Critique of the Notion of a Hopewellian “Religion" by Christopher Carr, Heather Smyth, and Brianna Rafidi