Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Archaeology, Unknowing, and the Recognition of Indigenous Presence in Post-1492 North America / Lee M. Panich and Tsim D. Schneider -- Part I. Historical Legacies: Authenticity and Unknowing. "I Can Tell It Always": Confronting Expectations of Native Disappearance Through Collaborative Research / Ian Kretzler -- On The Rez, It's All Our History / Catherine Dickson and Shawn Steinmetz -- Why Am I Ephemeral? Foregrounding Ndee Perceptions of Our Past as Persistence / Nicholas C. Laluk -- Considering the Long-Term Consequences of Designating Native American Sites as European Creations / Sarah Trabert -- The Struggle to Identify Nineteenth-Century Indigenous Sites in Cultural Resource Management / Matthew A. Beaudoin -- Distrust Thy Neighbor: Seminole Florida Camps from the Aftermath of the Seminole War to the Twentieth Century / Dave W. Scheidecker, Maureen Mahoney, and Paul N. Backhouse -- Part II. Conceptual and Practical Advances. Recognizing Post-Columbian Indigenous Sites in California's Colonial Hinterlands / Kathleen L. Hull -- Looking at the World Through Rose-Colored Flaked Glass / Hannah Russell -- Home and Homeland in the Land Beyond the Mountains / Laura L. Scheiber -- Seeking Indigenous Trade Networks of the Midcontinent through Glass Beads from La Belle (41MG86) / Heather Walder -- Small and Under-Recorded Sites as Evidence for Gayogohó:n̜o' (Cayuga) and Onöndawa'ga:' (Seneca) Regional Settlement Expansion, Circa 1640-1690 / Kurt A. Jordan -- Navigating Entanglements and Mitigating Intergenerational Trauma in Two Collaborative Projects: Stewart Indian School and "Our Ancestors Walk of Sorrow" Forced Removal Trail / Sarah E. Cowie and Diane L. Teeman -- Conclusion: Perspectives on Presence from a Sovereign (and Very Much Present) Native American Community / Tsim D. Schneider, Peter A. Nelson, and Nick Tipon.